Roles of CHWs
Refers to the range of services and duties that a category of worker, such as CHWs, is competent to provide
What is Scope of Practice?
A federally funded and administered program that provides universal medical care for the elderly
What is Medicare?
This field aims to provide populations with the right to be healthy and live in conditions that support health.
What is Public Health?
Showing an understanding of someone else's thoughts and emotions.
What is Empathy?
Trustworthiness, open-mindedness, self-awareness, commitment to social justice.
What is Examples of CHW Personal Qualities?
This historic law passed by President Obama makes progress toward the goal of providing healthcare equally for all people
What is The Affordable Care Act?
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
What is The 3 Levels of Prevention?
This type of question opens the door, encourages clients to talk, encourages elaboration and discussion, and leaves broad latitude for how to respond.
What is Open Ended Question?
Communication skills, interpersonal skills, knowledge base about the community, advocacy skills
What is examples of Core Competencies for CHWs?
This government program provides free or low-cost health coverage for low-income individuals and families.
What is Medicaid?
Common framework used in public health. It depicts a wide range of factors that influence health status.
What is Ecological Model of Health?
This model assumes that people progress through a series of five identifiable stages of motivation and readiness to change in the counseling process
What is Stages of Change?
This principle ensures that CHWs protect the privacy of clients' information
What is Confidentiality?
This resource offers nutrition assistance benefits to low-income individuals and families.
What is SNAP?
This is the term for conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age that affect their health outcomes.
What are Social Determinants of Health?
It spells OARS if you combine the first letters of these words.
What are Open-Ended Questions, Affirmation, Reflective Listening, and Summarize?
A CHW Role that involves engaging families, conducting assessments, addressing basic needs, setting goals and plan actions, supplying counseling, suggesting referrals, giving feedback to providers, producing documentation
What is Care Management?
Government organization created to protect workers from workplace hazards.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
This foundational concept refers to the fairness and justice needed in healthcare access and outcomes across all populations.
What is Health Equity?
A foundational practice in the CHW field that involves a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and critique, to redressing the power imbalances in the physician-patient dynamic, and to developing mutually beneficial and non-paternalistic partnerships with communities on behalf of individuals and defined populations.
What is Cultural Humility?