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Undergraduate 4
03/03/2014

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Term

Name two Federal websites that can be used as accurate resources

 

Definition

1.National institutes of health

2. CDC

 

Term

Name 2 National non governmental websites:

 

Definition

1. The American Heart Association

2. American Lung Association

3. American Cancer Society

 

Term

The following are examples of important considerations in health policy development

Ture or False?

 

community needs assessment

scientific assessment of results

impacts of current programming

avaliable resources to support and maintain policy

Definition
TRUE
Term
Define: Legislative advocacy
Definition

contacting a policy maker to discuss a public health problem

 

Term
Define Media advocacy
Definition

attempts to change the normative behavior of the media to alter public policy/

practice and create environmental change

step 1 set the agenda to garner media attention in order to alter the publics

perception of a public health issue

step 2 frame the issue by selecting specific content to present as

important

 

Term
4 Ps of social marketing:
Definition
Price Place Promotion Product
Term
“Immediate assessment and recognition of a concussion are important in preventing further injury and for post-concussion management” describes what component of the Health Belief Model?
Definition
Perceived Benefits of action
Term
The Banyon Tree Project is specifically tailored for which ethnic group?
Definition

Asian/Pacific Islander

Term
 When incorporating images to enhance the message health educators should
Definition

a. minimize distracting details in pictures

b. include people from intended audience in designing pictures

c.ask, how can I use pictures as my key points

d. use simple language conjunctions with pictures

e. all of the above

 

Term
4 channels for communicating:
Definition

Television, Newspaper, Radio, Internet

 

Term
True or False SMS is a way to keep ongoing communication with a priority population-
Definition
 True
Term
True or False Starting a program for reducing obesity among African Americans by selecting a church-based program is Pilot Testing.
Definition

True

 

Term
Define:Persuasive communication:
Definition
  • tailors health related messages to audiences need. Persuade the audience to adopt health attitudes and behaviors.

Term
On an individual level, effective health communication helps with?
Definition
    • increase awareness, motivation, skill development, positive attitudes.

    • Empowers individuals to improve health

Term
  • On a community level, effective health communication helps with?

Definition
    • influencing public policy, environmental changes, improve health service delivery, empowerment, creating healthy social norms.

Term
  1. What is included in electronic communications?

Definition
    1. email, web surveys, interactive TV, chat rooms, teleconferencing, blogs, CD’s, social networking.

Term
  1. What are some disadvantages of electronic communications?

Definition
    1. credibility and access are issues. poor or inaccurate info, privacy/confidentiality.

Term
  1. Advantages of interactive media?

Definition
    1. customize info, info access on demand, wider reach at faster pace, convenient.

Term
  1. What is included in Educational media?

Definition
    1. charts, diagrams, maps, videos, field trips, posters, pictures, handouts, powerpoints.

Term
  1. To have an effective educational media aid it must be able to?

Definition
    1. stand alone, illustrate one key point for each aid, use pictures with short key words, be clear and uncluttered.

Term
  1. When evaluating the delivery of communication strategies, you should use:

Definition
    1. multiple types of evaluations

Term
The word advocate comes from what Latin word?  
Definition
Voice
Term
What questions should health educators ask when engaging stakeholders?
Definition

What community resources are available?

 Who are the allies and adversaries on this issue?

Who else shares the problem?

 

Term
  • What are the three areas of policy development?

Definition

1.       policy process investigates options to increase adoption

2.       policy content use data to investigate effective elements

3.       policy outcomes evaluate the impact of policy

 

Term
  • Regarding advocacy, The Code of Ethics for the Health Education Profession states that health education specialist have a responsibility to promote, maintain, and improve?

Definition

Individual, family, and community health

 

Term
  • An individual acting as a private citizen can participate in any level of advocacy or lobbying but they must take care to?

Definition

Not use any resources that belong to their employer when acting as a private citizen

 

Term
The organizing, financing, and delivery of health-related policy are affected by the following forces:
Definition
Congress, federal health agencies, states, health care providers, businesses, and local communities.
Term
One should check for the best way to contact an elected official but the preferred written method is through..
Definition
Email or fax letters
Term
After a clean indoor air ordinance passes with the help of your advocacy efforts, Big Tobacco attempts to overturn it. Your community health coalition stops its campaign. Which type of advocacy benchmark is this?
a. Changing definitions/reframing
b. Holding the line
c. Shift in critical mass
d. Institutional policy
Definition
Holding the line
Term
True or False. Building relationships with the decision makers as well as those who influence them will help health education specialists influence health policy.
Definition
True
Term
Identify SMOG.
Definition
Readability test that stands for: Simple Measure of Gobbledegook.
Term
Explain community organizing as applied to health education.
Definition
A process by which community groups are helped to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching their goals they have collectively set.
Term
Explain media advocacy as applied to health education.
Definition
Change the normative behavior of the media to alter public policy. Examples: Web 2.0—MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
Term
Explain the role of health communications programs as part of overall health education efforts.
Definition
To inform and influence individual and community decisions that affect health.
Term

The Health education Specialist wishes to raise public awareness of an important health issue usingsuch tools as a press release, Letter to the Editor, and Interactive Web 2.0 resources. Awareness Strategies using these tools would be considered:

A. media advocacy

B. policy advocacy

C. legislative advocacy

D. public practice advocacy

Definition
A. media advocacy
Term

Your advocacy efforts are starting to be successful in a town that has been historically pro-tobacco. The city council has voted 4-1 to hold a town hall meeting to discuss a clean indoor air ordinance. Which type of advocacy benchmark is this?

A. community or individual behavior

B. shifts in critical mass

C. Changing definitions/reframing

D. institutional policy 

Definition
B. shifts in critical mass
Term

A health department wishes to create educational print materials for community members with language disorders and low literacy levels. Which would be the most effective in determining reading level?

A. Crisp Readability Formula

B. FLASH

C. SMOG

D. Log-Gunning index

Definition

C. Smog

Simple Measure of Gobbedygook

Term

The local cancer control coalition is searching for evidence-based programs and policies for cancer prevention in their community. In the future, they also want to draft evidence-based policy and legislation. What would be the most appropriate resource to review?

A. Decision Maker Matrix

B. Benchmark Developement Framework

C. Advocacy Evaluation Resources

D. Guide to Community Preventative Services

 

Definition
D. Guide to Community Preventative Services
Term

A health education specialist is tasked with evaluating the impact of policy decisions regarding the implementation of a new obesity prevention program. Specifically related to policy developement, they are focusing on policy:

A. outcomes

B. content

C. process

D. action

 

Definition
A. outcomes
Term

The health education specialist needs to communicate a revention message to a proactive, health information seeking audience. According to the needs assessment, the audience wants to obtain their information in a self-paced format and wants instant updates as new information becomes available. Which health communication channel would be best?

A. Radio

B. Groups

C. Internet

D. Print newspapers

 

Definition
C. internet
Term

The three key domains for evidence-based health policy include:

A. Process, content outcome

B. Process, impact, outcome

C. Formative, summative, impact

D. Impact, surveillance, outputs

Definition
A. Process, content, outcome
Term

Attempting to provoke change within a society using tools such as educational activities, coalition building, lobbying and media communication is:

A. cultural competence

B. advocacy

C. health literacy

D. consumer-driven health care

Definition
Term

A health care provider is talking with a patient. Which of the following is most important in keeping an open line of communication?

A. be aware of patient's possible feelings of fear, embarrassment or resentment

B. maintain ab authoritarian attitude so the patient takes the situation seriously

C. Always use scientific/medical terminology

Definition
A be aware of patient's possible feelings of fear, embarrassment, or resentment
Term

A health education specialist is designing a health communication campaign to increase physical activity among school-aged youth. The best group to work with to develop and pretest the campaign's message and educational material is:

A. other health educational specialists in the school's local community

B. area medical and social service personnel

C. local mass media experts

D. school-aged youth

Definition
D. school-aged youth
Term

In order to help account for milestones in health advocacy work or policy change, it is helpful to use:

A. list of challenges

B. benchmarks

C. historical accounts

D. standards

Definition
B. benchmarks
Term

After a clean indoor air ordinance passes with the help of advocacy efforts, Big Tobacco attempts to overturn it. A community health coalition stops its campaign. Which type of advocacy benchmark is this?

A. Changing definitions/reframing

B. Shift in critical mass

C. Holding the line

D. Institutional policy 

Definition
C. Holding the line
Term

Which health education professional organization exists specifically to protect and promote the health of children and youth by supporting coordinated school health programs as a foundation for school success?

A. American School Health Association(ASHA)

B. Eta Sigma Gamma (ESG)

C. American Associaion for Health Education (AAHE)

D. American Public Health Association's School Health Education and Services Section (APHA-SHES)

Definition
A. American School Health Association (ASHA)
Term

The most recent 18-month project to validate the contemporary practice of entry-and advanced-level health education specialist was the:

A. Competency Update Project (CUP)

B. Health Educator Job Analysis (HEJA)

C. 2006 Revised Framework

D. National Commission on Certifying Agencies (NCCA) 

Definition
B. Health Educator Job Analysis (HEJA)
Term

MEd

Definition
Master of Education
Term
MS
Definition
Master of Science
Term
MPH
Definition
Master of Public Health
Term
MSPH
Definition
Master of Science in Public Health
Term
CNHEO
Definition
THE COALITION OF NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Term
AAHE
Definition
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HEATLTH EDUCATION
Term
ACHA
Definition
AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Term
APHA
Definition
AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Term
ASHA
Definition
AMERICAN SCHOOL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Term
ESG
Definition
Eta Sigma Gamma
Term
SOPHE
Definition
SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION
Term
ADVOCACY
Definition

the pursuit of influencing outcomes- including public policy and resources allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions that directly affect people’s lives


Term
culture
Definition

Involves ideas, beliefs, values, customs, and norms that are learned from family and community and are passed down from generation to generation


Term
Name 4 ways to continue professional growth and service.
Definition

1.reading professional journals

2. attending professional meetings

3. taking courses

4. authoring journal aticles, chapters, books

5. presenting at professional meetings

6. participating in other professional development activities

Term
Explain the role of health communications programs as part of overall health education efforts
Definition
to inform and influence individual and community decisions that affect health.
Term
Identify SMOG and how it works
Definition

 Answer: Readability test that stands for:

Simple Measure of Gobbledegook

Term
  • Explain community organizing as applied to health education.


Definition

Answer: a process by which community groups are helped to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching their goals they have collectively set.


Term
  • Explain media advocacy as applied to health education


Definition

Answer:change the normative behavior of the media to alter public policy. Examples: Web 2.0—MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

Term
Health educators must communicate the role of health education in generating policy changes that lead to creating optimal conditions that promote health across multiple determinants of health at which levels?
Definition
Individual, family, neighborhood or community, cultural groups and organizational levels.
Term
Data needs to be in a form that:
Definition

Shows public health burden

Demonstrates priority of an issue over many others

Shows relevance at the local level

Shows benefits from an intervention

Personalizes an issue by telling a compelling story of how peoples’ lives are affected

Estimates the cost of the intervention

Term
An advocacy plan includes what five elements?
Definition

Goals

Organizational considerations

Constituents, allies, and opponents

Targets

 

Tactics

Term
What is an action network that has vital resources for the health educator to utilize when working on advocacy issues. It has E-advocacy tools to help mobilize members to send letters to member of congress electronically.
Definition
Capwiz;  www.capwiz.com
Term

 

  • Advocacy strategies can be categorized into six areas, these are?

Definition

Voting behavior

Electioneering

Direct lobbying

Grassroots lobbying

Use of the internet to access information on health issues

Media advocacy

Term

 

The organizing, financing, and delivery of health-related policy are affected by the following forces:

Definition

 

Congress, federal health agencies, states, health care providers, businesses, and local communities.

Term
One should check for the best way to contact an elected official but the preferred written method is through..
Definition
Email or fax letters
Term

 

After a clean indoor air ordinance passes with the help of your advocacy efforts, Big Tobacco attempts to overturn it. Your community health coalition stops its campaign. Which type of advocacy benchmark is this?

a. Changing definitions/reframing

b. Holding the line

c. Shift in critical mass

d. Institutional policy

Definition
Holding the line
Term

 

True or False. Building relationships with the decision makers as well as those who influence them will help health education specialists influence health policy.

Definition
True
Term
List the seven areas of responsibility for Health Education Specialists.
Definition

1. Assess needs, assets, and capacity for health education

2. Plan Health Education

3. Implement health education

4. Conduct evaluation and research related to health education

5. Administer and manage health education

6. Serve as a health education resource person

7. Communicate and advocate or health and health education

Term
What are the roles of health education associations in advancing the health education specialist profession
Definition

1. facilitate national level communication, collaboration, and coordination

2. provide forum for the identification and discussion of issues

3. formulates recommendationand takes appropriate actions on issues

4. communication and advisory resource

5. exploration and resolution of issues

Term
What are the benefits of participating in professional organizations?
Definition

1. update skills and knowledge

2. networking with peers and mentors

3. identifying collaborators for research and puplication opportunities

4. job banks

5. increased ability to influence local and state policy

6. Growth and maintenance of supportive partnerships

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