CHES CH 8

Adaptation

Making changes to health education messages, materials, or programs to make them more suitable for a population of interest

Cultural competence

A person’s ability to understand and respect attitudes and values of various cultures and to address these difference in planning, implementing, and evaluating health education and promotion programs

Cultural humility

An ongoing process of self-exploration for health education specialists in which they honor the beliefs, customs, culture, and values of the people with whom they work in communities

Health disparities

Differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and/or burden of disease that exist among specific population groups

Online database

Refer to any systematically organized information accessible on the internet, which may be used by health education specialists to obtain health knowledge and/or resources for the health education process. It may include text documents, citation, abstracts, images, audios, videos, and/or web links

Policies

Sets of rules and objectives to guide activities

Professional Development Plan (PDP)

A career document in which short-term, mid-term, and long-term goals and objectives for a professional person are outlined

Social determinants of health

Factors that could lead to health inequities and influence an individual’s or community’s health. Barriers to health include race or ethnic status, gender, mental health, disabilities, or location

Technical assistance

A dynamic, capacity-building process for designing or improving the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of specific programs, research, services, products, or systems

Theory

A set of interrelated concepts and definitions that present a systematic view of events and is used to describe a relationship among variables to explain or predict events

Workforce Development Plan (WDP)

The same as PDP; however, this plan is used for teams or organizations in an agency or system