Community Health Work Course Exam
Study Guide.
CHW core competencies - answer-assessment
-community health practice
-communication
-diversity and inclusion
-professional practice
-disease prevention and management
assessment - answerassessing health data and using it to guide strategies and...
assessment - answer✔assessing health data and using it to guide strategies and decisions
community health practice - answer✔working within the community to promote health education and
healthy behaviors, partnering with local organizations and stakeholders to achieve goals
communication - answer✔communicate regularly with stakeholders and partner organizations in a
professional and culturally sensitive way
diversity and inclusion - answer✔promoting and adhering to good standatds of diversity/inclusion and
acknowledging your role as a CHW in reducing health disparities and providing care to marginalized
groups
professional practice - answer✔being able to help with the management of a clinic or other service
organization such as filling out notes, charts, keeping the space organized, and other responsibilities as
needed
disease prevention and management - answer✔using health education and health promotion to reduce
the burden of preventable diseases
5 main areas for health disparities (social determinants of health) - answer✔-economic stability
10 essential public health services - answer✔1. Monitor health status to identify and solve community
health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
Social Ecological Model categories - answer✔-individual
-relationship
-community
-societal
What are FQHCs? - answer✔Federally Qualified Health Centers
provides primary care and health services to promote health and eliminate health and social disparities
they provide primary care regardless of your ability to pay
any center cannot be considered an FQHC, they must hit certain qualifications
funded by HRSA
when did the first FQHC begin - answer✔1965
What is Medicare? - answer✔federal insurance program for elderly persons or persons with permanent
disabilities no matter your income
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