Area 1
The health education specialist is reviewing the evidence-informed findings of the Guide to Community Preventive Services. The health education specialist is most likely assessing resources related to:
a. Clinical preventive services.
b. coalition development.
c. intervention approaches.
d. policy development.
c. intervention approaches.
Which of the following is not an adult learning principle?
a. Actively involve adults in helping to set the curriculum, choosing training methods, or identifying training goals.
b, Ask about adults’ past experience and knowledge, and use their experiences or knowledge to avoid providing redundant content during trainings.
c. Use a prescribed set of methods, perspectives, and content to standardize instruction and avoid confusion.
d. Conduct assessments to identify ways to engage adults and learn about their goals or objectives for the training.
c. Use a prescribed set of methods, perspectives, and content to standardize instruction and avoid confusion.
The coalition is having a difficult time persuading a decision-maker to support an issue. The decision-maker, however, can be swayed by level of public support for theissue. The most important data collection method to use next, therefore, would be:
a. political capital charting.
b. communications capacity analysis.
c. community leader surveys.
d. voting record examination.
c. community leader surveys.
What is an effective way to identify stakeholders?
a. Contact people in the target community to gather categories and names.
b. Use people whom are known and have worked on other projects.
c. Gather people in professional organizations who have worked in the general region.
d. Work primarily with political organizations that work with segments of the community
a. Contact people in the target community to gather categories and names.
A heath education specialist is conducting research. Which of the following is not focused on ethical principles for conducting data collection?
a. Beneficence
b. Justice
c. Respect for persons
d. Validity
d. Validity
Which type of literature review typically is used to identify current gaps in the literature after comprehensively reviewing the literature on a topic?
a. Systematic review
b. Meta-analysis
c. Pooled analysis
d. Computerized review
a. Systematic review
Intervention sustainability should be planned:
a. immediately after the first process evaluation.
b. mid-intervention.
c. immediately following impact evaluation.
d. at the start of the intervention.
d. at the start of the intervention.
The health education specialist can influence policymaking at the implementation stage by:
a. offering comment on draft rules.
b. recommending changes based on operational experience.
c. defining the problem.
d. evaluating policy solutions.
a. offering comment on draft rules.
In a grant-funded project budget, what are the indirect costs?
a. Budget expenses for miscellaneous items
b. Cost associated with marketing materials
c. Personnel expenses such as benefits
d. Overhead expenses such as utilities and rent
d. Overhead expenses such as utilities and rent
The community recreation center placed speed bumps on the roadway that borders the playgrounds. This action is an example of which type of intervention strategy?
a. Healthy policy change
b. Communication change
c. Environmental change
d. Health education change
c. Environmental change
Ahealth education specialist is assessing which valid resource to use to obtain chronic disease-related morbidity and mortality trends in a specific local community. What would be the best resource to use to access that information?
a. US Bureau of Census data
b. County and State health-related agencies data
c. Literature review
d. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data
b. County and State health-related agencies data
Which of the following is typically measured in a process evaluation?
a. Health status and quality of life indices
b. Fidelity, completeness, and exposure
c. Environmental changes and skills
d. Needs, gaps, and program goals
b. Fidelity, completeness, and exposure
Health is impacted by a variety of different factors, but there are five major factors that contribute to the determinants of health for a population. Discrimination and income fall under which of the five major factors?
a. Health behaviors
b. Social environment or characteristics
c. Physical environment
d. Health services
b. Social environment or characteristics
To gain organizational acceptance for strategic plans, health education specialists should:
a. work with colleagues to develop external strategic plans that do not require emphasizing organizational culture.
b. pay less attention to organizational culture than to effective planning.
c. work within the organizational culture that is determined by upper management.
d. consider organizational culture, and develop and implement strategies to change that culture if needed.
d. consider organizational culture, and develop and implement strategies to change that culture if needed.
Forgetting to inform participants about the risks associated with physical activity before having the participants begin a program is an example of:
a. commission.
b. deregulation.
c. ethical compliance.
d. negligence.
d. negligence.
Which social determinant should the health education specialist consider when analyzing knowledge acquisition among youth participating in a risk reduction intervention?
a. Circumstances
b. Relationships
c. Connections
d. Environments
a. Circumstances
When applying traditional marketing principles to health education interventions, the “product” is usually the:
a. behavior change.
b. tangible good.
c. location.
d. monetary cost
a. behavior change.
Advocacy initiatives are created to influence policy and law, and they include many strategy areas. In which of these areas would holding a town hall meeting fall?
a. Electioneering
b. Media advocacy
c. Grassroots lobbying
d. Direct lobbying
c. Grassroots lobbying
What is an important characteristic that defines “plain language?” Language:
a. is used in federal agencies, so it is important to health education specialists.
b. is presented simply with a low reading level.
c. is presented in a way that the audience can understand it quickly.
d. follows accepted rules of grammar and composition.
c. is presented in a way that the audience can understand it quickly.
According to the Diffusion of Innovations theory, some groups in the population are resistant to change. These groups of people are referred to as the:
a. innovators
b. adopters.
c. laggards.
d. majority.
c. laggards.
A health education specialist plans to conduct a food access and food desert assessment to determine how many grocery stores exist in the low-income areas of the community compared to other income-level areas. When planning for the collection of secondary data, all of the following tasks should be included except to:
a. identify existing data at the city, county, state and/or federal level.
b. obtain resources and partners to access or collect data.
c. create or adapt an existing instrument to collect observational data.
d. describe how data would be systematically collected.
c. create or adapt an existing instrument to collect observational data.
To determine whether a proposed intervention will work as designed, the health education specialist could conduct a(n):
a. pilot test.
b. impact evaluation.
c. market analysis.
d. participant interview.
a. pilot test.
When a media advocacy campaign is used to educate about proposed policy changes, decision-makers with the power to affect change are which type of audience?
a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Tertiary
d. Quaternary
a. Primary
An important indicator of capacity is “influence". What is true about influencers?
a. One should primarily look for wealthy people to find influencers.
b. People connected to large networks are often important influencers.
c. Most influencers are people working in professional organizations.
d. Influencers are rarely found in community neighborhoods.
b. People connected to large networks are often important influencers.
When starting to build relationships with multiple sectors outside of public health (e.g., housing, transportation, primary care, schools), what would be the most effective first step?
a. Communicate the needs of public health to partner with decision makers in other sectors.
b. Ask partners about their priorities and needs.
c. Share data and evidence about priority public health topics.
d. Address gaps in communication, values, and understanding between sectors.
b. Ask partners about their priorities and needs.