CERTIFIED HEALTH EDUCATION SPECIALIST EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Area of Responsibility I: Assess Needs, Assets and Capacity for Health Education - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅The Responsibility of the Needs Assessment
Health Education - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- ''Any planned combination of learning experiences designed
to predispose, enable, and reinforce voluntary behavior conducive to health in individuals, groups, and
communities''
Health Promotion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- ''Any planned combination of educational, political,
regulatory, or organizational supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of
individuals, groups, and communities'' (Green & Kreuter, 2005, p. G-4).
Health Educator - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅...- ''A professionally prepared individual who serves in a
variety of roles and is specifically trained to use appropriate educational strategies and methods to
facilitate the development of policies, procedures, interventions, and systems conducive to the health of
individuals, groups, and communities'' (Joint Committee, 2001, p. 100).
Health Education Specialist - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅...• ''An individual who has met, at a minimum,
baccalaureate-level required health education academic preparation qualifications, who serves in a
variety of settings, and is able to use appropriate educational strategies and methods to facilitate the
development of policies, procedures, interventions, and systems conducive to the health of individuals,
groups, and communities'' (Joint Committee, 2012).
Primary Prevention - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Preventive measures that forestall the onset of illness or
injury during the prepathogenesis period.
Secondary Prevention - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Preventive measures that lead to early diagnosis and
prompt treatment of disease, illness or injury
Tertiary Prevention - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅... Preventive measures aimed at rehabilitation following
significant pathogenesis.
Primary Data - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Data gathered by the Health Education Specialist directly from or
about the population of interest.
,Secondary Data - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Data gathered by others that may or may not be directly
collected from the individual or population of being assessed.
Health Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Behavior that impacts a person's health.
Needs Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A process by which Health Education Specialist gather
information regarding health needs and desires of a data population. Plan for the process , assess
resources, locate existing data, collect data , using research methods to guide data collection.
Steps of the Need Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Determine the scope
2. Gather the Data
3. Analyze the data
4. Identify risk factors
5. Prioritize the need
6. Validate the need
Rapid Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The framework for when money is limited.
Asset model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Strengths of community organization or population; using existing
resources to improve health.
Public Health Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Quantify Epidemiological Data
Epidemiological Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Epidemiological Data
Social Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The influence of Social or political Issues on health.
Stakeholders - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅These people may be involved in program operations such as
program manager, program staff, partners, funding agencies, coalition members of those served or
, affected by the program / project including patients , clients , advocacy groups and community
members.
Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The study of the distribution and determinants of health related
states and the application of this study to control health problems.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Group of individuals with the authority to grant
or deny permission to conduct evaluation or research. It serves to safeguard the rights, privacy , health
and well being of those involved in research
Behavior (lifestyle) factors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Behaviors or actions of individuals, groups, or
communities. Indicators may include compliance , consumption and utilization patterns, coping ,
preventive actions
Environmental factors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Determinants outside the individual that can be
modified to support behavior , health , quality of life . Economic factors , physical factors , public
services , access to, affordability of, equity in health services.
Individual factors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Educational , social and cultural characteristics of the
individuals. Person's knowledge , attitudes, beliefs and perceptions, related to health culture, religious
and spiritual beliefs and skill set.
Informed consent - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Disclosure of information to prospective subjects about the
research (program) their comprehension of the information and their voluntary agreement , free of
coercion and undue influence to research.
Predisposing Factors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Any characteristic of a person or population that
motivates a behavior prior to occurrence of behavior [ Individual knowledge and affective traits].
Enabling Factors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Any characteristics of the environment that facilitates action
and skill of resource required to attain a specific behavior [ Factors that make possible a change in
behavior]
Area of Responsibility I: Assess Needs, Assets and Capacity for Health Education - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅The Responsibility of the Needs Assessment
Health Education - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- ''Any planned combination of learning experiences designed
to predispose, enable, and reinforce voluntary behavior conducive to health in individuals, groups, and
communities''
Health Promotion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- ''Any planned combination of educational, political,
regulatory, or organizational supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of
individuals, groups, and communities'' (Green & Kreuter, 2005, p. G-4).
Health Educator - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅...- ''A professionally prepared individual who serves in a
variety of roles and is specifically trained to use appropriate educational strategies and methods to
facilitate the development of policies, procedures, interventions, and systems conducive to the health of
individuals, groups, and communities'' (Joint Committee, 2001, p. 100).
Health Education Specialist - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅...• ''An individual who has met, at a minimum,
baccalaureate-level required health education academic preparation qualifications, who serves in a
variety of settings, and is able to use appropriate educational strategies and methods to facilitate the
development of policies, procedures, interventions, and systems conducive to the health of individuals,
groups, and communities'' (Joint Committee, 2012).
Primary Prevention - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Preventive measures that forestall the onset of illness or
injury during the prepathogenesis period.
Secondary Prevention - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Preventive measures that lead to early diagnosis and
prompt treatment of disease, illness or injury
Tertiary Prevention - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅... Preventive measures aimed at rehabilitation following
significant pathogenesis.
Primary Data - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Data gathered by the Health Education Specialist directly from or
about the population of interest.
,Secondary Data - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Data gathered by others that may or may not be directly
collected from the individual or population of being assessed.
Health Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Behavior that impacts a person's health.
Needs Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A process by which Health Education Specialist gather
information regarding health needs and desires of a data population. Plan for the process , assess
resources, locate existing data, collect data , using research methods to guide data collection.
Steps of the Need Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Determine the scope
2. Gather the Data
3. Analyze the data
4. Identify risk factors
5. Prioritize the need
6. Validate the need
Rapid Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The framework for when money is limited.
Asset model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Strengths of community organization or population; using existing
resources to improve health.
Public Health Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Quantify Epidemiological Data
Epidemiological Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Epidemiological Data
Social Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The influence of Social or political Issues on health.
Stakeholders - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅These people may be involved in program operations such as
program manager, program staff, partners, funding agencies, coalition members of those served or
, affected by the program / project including patients , clients , advocacy groups and community
members.
Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The study of the distribution and determinants of health related
states and the application of this study to control health problems.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Group of individuals with the authority to grant
or deny permission to conduct evaluation or research. It serves to safeguard the rights, privacy , health
and well being of those involved in research
Behavior (lifestyle) factors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Behaviors or actions of individuals, groups, or
communities. Indicators may include compliance , consumption and utilization patterns, coping ,
preventive actions
Environmental factors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Determinants outside the individual that can be
modified to support behavior , health , quality of life . Economic factors , physical factors , public
services , access to, affordability of, equity in health services.
Individual factors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Educational , social and cultural characteristics of the
individuals. Person's knowledge , attitudes, beliefs and perceptions, related to health culture, religious
and spiritual beliefs and skill set.
Informed consent - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Disclosure of information to prospective subjects about the
research (program) their comprehension of the information and their voluntary agreement , free of
coercion and undue influence to research.
Predisposing Factors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Any characteristic of a person or population that
motivates a behavior prior to occurrence of behavior [ Individual knowledge and affective traits].
Enabling Factors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Any characteristics of the environment that facilitates action
and skill of resource required to attain a specific behavior [ Factors that make possible a change in
behavior]
