Health Educators
Also called:
Health Educator, Public Health Educator, Clinical Instructor, Community Health Consultant
What they do:
Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. Collect and analyze data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. May serve as a resource to assist individuals, other healthcare workers, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.
On the job, you would:
- Develop and present health education and promotion programs, such as training workshops, conferences, and school or community presentations.
- Develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with agencies and organizations interested in public health care.
- Develop educational materials and programs for community agencies, local government, and state government.
Education and Training
- teaching and course design
Arts and Humanities
Business
- customer service
- administrative services
Communications
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Basic Skills
- talking to others
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
Social
- changing what is done based on other people's actions
- understanding people's reactions
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
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Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- communicate by writing
Ideas and Logic
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- notice when problems happen
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People interested in this work like activities that include
helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Integrity
- Cooperation
- Dependability
- Initiative
- Concern for Others
- Independence
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You might use software like this on the job:
Web page creation and editing software
Data base user interface and query software
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC WONDER
- Microsoft Access
Spreadsheet software
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master's degree or
bachelor's degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
$47,940
per year, on average
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