RESPONSIBILITY I - ASSESSING INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY NEEDS FOR HEALTH
EDUCATION
Competency A: Obtain health-related data about social and cultural
environments, growth and development factors, needs and interests.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Select valid sources of information
about health needs and interests.
2. Utilize computerized sources of
health-related information.
3. Employ or develop appropriate
data-gathering instruments.
4. Apply survey techniques to acquire
health data.
Competency B: Distinguish between behaviors that foster and those that
hinder well-being.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Investigate physical, social,
emotional and intellectual factors influencing health behaviors.
2. Identify behaviors that tend to promote
or compromise health.
3. Recognize the role of learning and
affective experience in shaping patterns of health behavior.
Competency C: Infer needs for health education on the basis of
obtained data.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Analyze needs assessment data.
2. Determine priority areas of need for
health education.
RESPONSIBILITY II – PLANNING EFFECTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION
PROGRAMS
Competency A: Recruit community organizations, resource people and
potential participants for support and assistance in program planning.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Communicate need for the program to
those who will be involved.
2. Obtain commitments form personnel and
decision makers who will be involved in the program.
3. Seek ideas and opinions of those who
will affect, or be affected by the program.
4. Incorporate feasible ideas and
recommendations into the planning process.
Competency B: Develop a logical scope and sequence plan for a health
education program.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Determine the range of health
information requisite to a given program of instruction.
2. Organize the subject areas comprising
the scope of a program in logical sequence.
Competency C: Formulate appropriate and measurable program objectives.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Infer educational objectives that
facilitate achievement of specified competencies.
2. Develop a framework of broadly stated,
operational objectives relevant to proposed health education
program.
Competency D: Design educational programs consistent with specified
program objectives.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Match proposed learning activities
with those implicit in the stated objectives.
2. Formulate a wide variety of the
alternative educational methods.
3. Select strategies best suited to
implementation of educational objectives in a given setting.
4. Plan a sequence of learning
opportunities building upon, and reinforcing mastery of preceding objectives.
RESPONSIBILITY III - IMPLEMENTING HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Competency A: Exhibit competence in carrying out planned educational
programs
Sub-Competencies:
1. Employ a wide range of educational
methods and techniques.
2. Apply individual or group process
methods as appropriate to given learning situations.
3. Utilize instructional equipment and
other instructional media
4. Select methods that best facilitate the
practice of program objectives.
Competency B: Infer enabling objectives as needed to implement
instructional programs in specified settings.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Pretest learners to ascertain
present abilities and knowledge relative to proposed program objectives.
2. Develop subordinate measurable
objectives as needed for instruction.
Competency C: Select methods and media best suited to implement
program plans for specific learners.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Analyze learner characteristics, legal
aspects, feasibility and other considerations influencing choices among methods.
2. Evaluate the efficacy of alternative
methods and techniques capable of facilitating program objectives.
3. Determine the availability of
information, personnel, time and equipment needed to implement the program for a
given audience.
Competency D: Monitor educational programs, adjusting objectives and
activities as necessary.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Compare actual program activities
with the stated objectives.
2. Assess the relevance of existing program
objectives to current needs.
3. Revise program activities and objectives
as necessitated by changes in learner needs.
4. Appraise applicability of resources and
materials relative to given educational objectives.
RESPONSIBILITY IV - EVALUATING EFFECTIVENESS OF HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Competency A: Develop plans to assess achievement of programs
objectives.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Determine standards of performance
to be applied as criteria of effectiveness.
2. Establish a realistic scope of
evaluation efforts.
3. Develop an inventory of existing valid
and reliable tests and instruments.
4. Select appropriate methods for
evaluating program effectiveness.
Competency B: Carry out evaluation plans.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Facilitate administration of the
tests and activities specified in the plan.
2. Utilize data-collecting methods
appropriate to the objectives.
3. Analyze resulting evaluation data.
Competency C: Interpret results of program evaluation.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Apply criteria of effectiveness to
obtained results of a program.
2. Translate evaluation results into terms
easily understood by others.
3. Report effectiveness of educational
programs in achieving proposed objectives.
Competency D: Infer implication from findings for future program
planning.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Explore possible explanations for
important evaluation findings.
2. Recommend strategies for implementing
results of evaluation.
RESPONSIBILITY V - COORDINATING PROVISION OF HEALTH EDUCATION SERVICES
Competency A: Develop a plan for coordinating health education
services.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Determine the extent of available
health education services.
2. Match health education services to
proposed program activities.
3. Identify gaps and overlaps in the
provision of collaborative health services.
Competency B: Facilitate cooperation between and among levels of
program personnel.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Promote cooperation and feedback
among personnel related to the program.
2. Apply various methods of conflict
reduction as needed.
3. Analyze the role of health educator as
liaison between program staff and outside groups and organizations.
Competency C: Formulate practical modes of collaboration among health
agencies and organizations.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Stimulate development of cooperation
among personnel responsible for community health education programs.
2. Suggest approaches for integrating
health education within existing health programs.
3. Develop plans for promoting
collaborative efforts among health agencies and organizations with mutual interests.
Competency D: Organize in-service training programs for teachers,
volunteers, and other interested personnel.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Plan an operational,
competency-oriented training program.
2. Utilize instructional resources that
meet a variety of in-service training needs.
3. Demonstrate a wide range of strategies
for conducting in-service training programs.
RESPONSIBILITY VI - ACTING AS A RESOURCE PERSON IN HEALTH EDUCATION
Competency A: Utilize computerized health information retrieval system
effectively.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Match an information need with the
appropriate retrieval system.
2. Access principal on-line and other
database health information resources.
Competency B: Establish effective consultative relationships with
those requesting assistance in solving health-related problems.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Analyze parameters of effective
consultative relationships.
2. Describe special skills and abilities
needed by health educators for consultation activities.
3. Formulate a plan for providing
consultation to other health professionals.
4. Explain the process of marketing health
education consultative services.
Competency C: Interpret and respond to requests for health
information.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Analyze general processes for
identifying the information needed to satisfy a request.
2. Employ a wide range of approaches in
referring requests to valid sources of health information.
Competency D: Select effective educational resources materials for
dissemination.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Assemble educational material of value to the health of individuals and community groups.
2. Evaluate the worth and applicability of resources materials for given audiences.
3. Apply various processes in the acquisition of resource materials.
4. Compare different methods for distributing educational materials.
RESPONSIBILITY VII - COMMUNICATING HEALTH AND HEALTH EDUCATION NEEDS,
CONCERNS, AND RESOURCES.
Competency A: Interpret concepts, purposes and theories of health
education.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Evaluate the state of the art of health education.
2. Analyze the foundations of the discipline of health education.
3. Describe major responsibilities of the health educator in the practice of health education.
Competency B: Predict the impact of societal value systems on health
education programs.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Investigate social forces causing
opposing viewpoints regarding health education needs and concerns.
2. Employ a wide range of strategies for
dealing with controversial health issues.
Competency C: Select a variety of communication methods and techniques
in providing health information.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Utilize a wide range of techniques
for communicating health and health education information.
2. Demonstrate proficiency in communicating
health information and health education needs.
Competency D: Foster communication between health care providers and
consumers.
Sub-Competencies:
1. Interpret the significance and
implications of health care providers' messages to consumers.
2. Act as liaison between consumer groups
and individuals and health care provider organizations.
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