For people with less than 12 years of education, the infant mortality rate and overall
death rate is almost twice as high as people with 13 or more years of education. These
are examples of: - Answers -health disparities
A health education specialist has been asked to collect qualitative data from
participants. Given a short time period to collect data, which method takes the least
amount of time? - Answers -focus groups
The health education specialist must analyze the meaning of the data collected during
the assessment and determine health education/promotion needs. If the health
education specialist aggregates the data, which cognitive process of qualitative
research is he/she focusing on? - Answers -comprehending
Which method represents a secondary source for a needs assessment? - Answers -
published data from a CDC article
Although the mortality rates of children have declined over the years, the leading cause
of mortality in children is: - Answers -unintentional injury
The health education specialist is working with a local community to institute a smoke
free environment in local businesses, agencies, and restaurant throughout the entire
community. What type of health strategy would the health education specialist
implement in the community? - Answers -ordinance
Conducting a capacity assessment focuses on identifying community: - Answers -
resources
Which of the following is the first step in designing a survey? - Answers -determining the
objectives of the survey
A health education specialist wishes to use the ecological model in a needs
assessment. Which of the following is an example of a way to assess levels of this
model? - Answers -assessing attitudes, behaviors, policies and social norms in a
community
The health department administrator just returned from a meeting where someone used
a focus group to gather data and now has a great idea. The administrator tasks the
health education specialist with conducting a focus group of low income citizens from
the south side of town to answer questions about which heart disease intervention the
department should offer city wide. Knowing the limitations of this strategy, the health
,education specialist is rightfully concerned about: - Answers -the generalizability of the
findings
Using a written questionnaire, a cross-sectional survey about personal alcohol, tobacco,
and other drug use behaviors was administered to a priority population. The priority
population for the survey did not respond. The health education specialist would then
need to find other evidence that the behaviors occurred or did not occur using: -
Answers -proxy measures
If a health education specialist wished to use the application level of Bloom's taxonomy
in an intervention aimed at decreasing saturated fat consumption, what might the health
education specialist have the priority population do? - Answers -demonstrate how to
prepare a healthy meal
The health education specialist is charged with establishing collaborative relationships
with organizations to gain access to data for country wide community needs
assessments. Which of the following is the best approach to secure the data needed? -
Answers -establish a data sharing agreement including the outcome, purpose, data
ownership, and conditions of release
A health education specialist is concerned about HIV infection in the community. The
health education specialist might use the data from a graph on estimated new HIV
infections in the US, 2010: - Answers -to compare primary data in the community to
better understand community need
Print material was selected as the appropriate way to provide a take-home message to
reinforce concepts presented during a behavior change intervention. The first step in
planning the specific materials to be developed is to: - Answers -define the audience for
the material
Administrative support was secured and a program planning committee was formed for
a school-based health promotion program. Which of the following should the committee
members identify next before advancing the needs assessment process? - Answers -
planning parameters
Consumption, medication compliance, and self-care are considered which type of
factors to health? - Answers -behavioral
A health education specialist is asked to measure actual use of a walking trail in a local
community. Which of the following methods is best to measure actual use of the trail
over a period of a week? - Answers -observation
The health education specialist is measuring the incidence of breast cancer in Texas in
January 2015, which women would be counted for the numerator of the incidence
measure? - Answers -women in Texas diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2015
, A health education specialist is trying to find data on emergency room visits and
hospitalization in the community. Which of the following secondary sources is the best
source of this data? - Answers -NHCS
Which represents primary sources that could be used for a community needs
assessment? - Answers -informal interviews, observations and surveys
When calculating mortality statistics in a population, the health education specialist
needs to weigh deaths of the very young more than the deaths of the very old. Which of
the following would he/she calculate? - Answers -YPLL
When inferring needs of a priority population, the health education specialist: - Answers
-consider feedback from the priority population along with data collected on health
issues in the population
What would a health education specialist need to know to calculate age-specific death
rates from cardiovascular disease? - Answers -the breakdown of deaths by age group
and the midyear population by age
A large group of tourists traveled on an ocean liner to a tropical island and developed an
acute, flu-like illness. The suspected cause of illness is associated with cruising on this
ocean liner. Health authorities need to know the number of all passengers who became
ill, as well as those who traveled on the ocean liner. Which rate should the health
education specialist calculate to provide information to health authorities? - Answers -
attack rate
In a community, twice as many people died over the course of one year in house fires
than in car crashes. Community members demand the health education specialist
immediately create a fire prevention intervention. Before planning the fire prevention
intervention, the health education specialist should first determine the: - Answers -
population at risk
A health education specialist has been charged to develop a comprehensive childhood
obesity intervention in a community identified as having a high prevalence of childhood
obesity. What planning model would best assist the health education specialist in
developing the program? - Answers -precede-proceed model
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: - Answers -health disparities
A hospital is expanding outreach services and facilities with a new unit focused on
prevention and the treatment of chronic disease. The health education specialist is
tasked with gathering local data on these conditions. Which is the most useful rate to
use? - Answers -prevalence rate
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