Foundations
This defines the boundaries of what a CHW is trained and allowed to do.
What is Scope of Practice?
This type of question, often used in interviews, allows for longer responses and encourages clients to share more information.
What is an Open-ended Question?
This level of the socioecological model focuses more on close relationships like friends and family.
What is relationship or interpersonal level?
Name an example of a health behavior
(Multiple answers acceptable)
Under this act, insurance companies can't refuse coverage due to pre-existing conditions.
What is the 2010 Affordable Care Act?
This Federal Act requires hospitals with emergency departments to provide a medical screening examination to any individual who comes to the emergency department.
What is EMTALA?
This type of practice places the client's needs, values, and desires at the forefront of care decisions.
What is Client-Centered Practice?
The unspoken and often subconcious prejudices we unknowingly carry with us that can affect our interactions are called this.
What is Implicit Bias?
Before designing any intervention for a community, one most do this first.
What is, a needs assessment?
This type of illness lasts three months or longer.
What is Chronic illness?
This foundational principle ensures that CHWs respect the choices of the individuals they serve.
What is autonomy or self-determination or agency?
CHWs use this to help clients identify and access external services or agencies that might assist them.
What is Client Resource Referral?
This concept goes beyond just individual prejudices and encompasses broad societal systems that promote discrimination.
What is Systemic Racism?
This concept refers to an individual's belief in their capability to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific performance attainments.
What is Self-efficacy?
These three indicators are pivotal in gauging the health trajectory of a nation.
What are General Mortality, Life Expectancy, & Infant Mortality?
Screening for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in nasal samples among a population is an example of which level of disease prevention?
What is secondary prevention?
While offering guidance and support, CHWs sometimes use this non-clinical technique to help clients talk about and understand their feelings.
What is Informal Counseling?
These are the words we often use to talk about a person when we're not using their name, and matter to many individuals in the transgender community.
What are pronouns?
When designing a community public health intervention, a CHW should consider these three sociological factors. (hint: this is on the midterm assignment)
What are: power, privilege, and identity.
A diet high in processed foods and low in fresh produce can contribute to this condition, characterized by chronic high blood sugar levels and episodes of low blood sugar levels.
What is Type II diabetes?
Providing rehabilitation services to a stroke patient to prevent further complications aligns with this level of disease prevention.
What is tertiary prevention?
This technique is used by Community Health Workers to guide conversations by asking open-ended questions, affirming, reflecting, and summarizing.
What is motivational interviewing?
This term refers to differences in health that are unnecessary, avoidable, unfair, and unjust, whereas the other term simply refers to measurable differences in health status among different populations.
What is health inequity (as opposed to health inequality)?
Ensuring that community members have a clear understanding of and agree to health interventions abides by this ethical principle.
What is informed consent?
Name an example of an acute illness (not chronic).
(Multiple answers acceptable)