Community Health

4. focuses on the client or family, uses language accessible to the client, and respects the clients privacy.
8. assistance programs that provide either cash assistance or in-kind benefits to individuals and families from any governmental entity.
10. They are people who serve as “frontline” health and social service workers.
11. unfair and avoidable differences in health across the population, and between different groups within society
13. open up a discussion and facilitate dialogue. Good for opening interviews and gathering additional information
14. Prepare and disseminate material, find cases and recruit, assess community, visit homes, promote health literacy, be an advocate.
15. focuses on the positive attributes of the clients and communities.
18. the complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease.
19. the legal obligation to report abuse. Mandated reporters are individuals or agencies that are legally required to make these reports. In the United States, mandated reporting laws vary significantly.
20. determines which skills CHWs are competent to perform and which are beyond their expertise

1. Listen actively, ask open-ended questions, convey information in clear language, clearly state wants or needs, present information to groups
2. What is 1 piece of information gathered during the beginning of an interview with your client?
3. organized measures (either public or private) to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life among the population as a whole.
5. Share accurate and culturally appropriate information with clients, families, and community groups; use plain language; assess understanding; select appropriate written and visual materials.
6. strategy for engaging with patients and caregivers to create a complete and accurate medication list using the brown bag method.
7. a framework for CHWs, supervisors, and employers of CHWs to discuss ethical issues facing the profession
9. A set of guidelines that individuals inherit as members of a particular society and that tell them how to view the world, how to experience it emotionally, and how to behave in it in relation to other people
12. Organize communities, be an advocate, translate and interpret, conduct assessments
16. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
17. Are guidelines that define professional working relationships.