Acronyms
The most recognized health organization globally. Provides a variety of health info and data on its website.
Who is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
The conditions in which people are born, live, work, play, and age that affect their health risks, health, daily functioning, and quality of life.
What are the Social Determinants of Health?
Surveys, interviews, observations, focus groups, and photovoice.
What are examples of primary data collection strategies?
Conducting a capacity assessment focuses on identifying community...
Resources
Which method of qualitative data takes the least amount of time?
A. Interviews
B. Focus Groups
C. Delphi technique
D. Quantitative surveys
Focus Groups
What is Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA)>
Individuals or agencies that have a vested interest in the health education program.
What are stakeholders?
A participant's impression about the fairness of a program rule/requirement.
What is Qualitative Data?
Things that health professionals believe a given population must have or be in order to resolve a health problem.
Service needs
Researchers and community members/stakeholders who review proposed research for compliance with federal regulations governing research involving human subjects
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Attainment of the highest level of health for all people
Healthy equity
The four data collection phases in order
Data Collection & Instrument Development
Data Analysis Plan
Findings or Results of Assessment
Written Reporting of Data
The systematic identification of needs within a population and the determination of the degree to which those needs are being met.
Needs assessment
In a priority population, the infant mortality rate and overall death rate for mothers with less than a high school education is almost twice as high as mothers with 13 or more years of education. These are examples of...
What are Health Disparities?
A rich source of info about the health status of the population & monitors trends in health status and care delivery. Vital records are located here.
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
The Five Levels of Influence
Individual
Interpersonal
Institutional
Community
Public Policy
A visual representation of the physical assets of a community that may constitute important physical and social support structures for achieving community goals
Criticality
Egalitarian
Needs-based
Resource Sensitive
Utilitarian
Community members offer suggestions for curbing the community's obesity problem. They focus on the behaviors of individuals, thinking if community members change their dietary behaviors then the obesity problem will be solved. Why is this not so simple?
Sometimes behaviors are influenced by other factors, such as lack of access to healthy food, and are out of an individuals control.
Something similar will suffice as well.
Non-profit medical info portal that links to reliable and trustworthy medical sites on the internet
Health on the Net (HON)
Five major factors that contribute to the determinant of the health of a population
Genes & biology
Health behaviors
Social environment or social characteristics
Physical environment or total ecology
Health services or medical care
The steps for conducting a literature review
Specify study aims
Set inclusion criteria
Design a recruitment strategy
Screen potential partners
Decide on measures and design the data collection protocol
Select the appropriate metric to represent the strength of the findings
Collect the data
Analyze and display the data using appropriate methods
Draw conclusions based on data and limitations
The six-step process for conducting a needs assessment.
What is determining the scope of work and the purpose, gather the data, analyze the data, identify factors linked to the health problem, identify the focus for the program, and validate the need before continuing the planning process?
If a health education specialist wished to use the application level of blooms taxonomy in an intervention aimed at decreasing saturated fat consumption, what might the health education specialist have the priority population do?
A. Outline the health benefits of decreasing fat intake
B. List foods contatining saturated fats
C. Compare saturated and unsaturated fats
D. Demonstrate how to prepare a healthy meal
Demonstrate how to prepare a healthy meal