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Career Details :: Health Educators

Description

Promote, maintain, and improve individual and community health by assisting individuals and communities to adopt healthy behaviors. 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 also serve as a resource to assist individuals, other professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.

Experience

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education

A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks

• Plans and provides educational opportunities for health personnel.
• Collaborates with health specialists and civic groups to ascertain community health needs, determine availability of services, and to develop goals.
• Promotes health discussions in schools, industry, and community agencies.
• Prepares and disseminates educational and informational materials.
• Develops and maintains cooperation between public, civic, professional, and voluntary agencies.
• Conducts community surveys to ascertain health needs, develop desirable health goals, and determine availability of professional health services.

Related Careers

• Graduate Teaching Assistants
  
• Instructional Coordinators
  
• Teacher Assistants
  
• Vocational Education Teachers Postsecondary
  

Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Speech Clarity
• Written Comprehension
• Oral Comprehension
• Written Expression

General Work Activities

• Communicating With Persons Outside Organization
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Establishing & Maintaining Relationships
• Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc.
• Communicating With Other Workers

Important Skills

• Speaking
  
• Writing
  
• Active Listening
  
• Information Gathering
  
• Active Learning
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Indoors
• Objective or Subjective Information
• Consequence of Error
• Importance of Being Exact or Accurate

Related Majors

Major (A) Associate (B) Bachelors (C) Certificate (D) Doctor (M) Master	Add to XapPack
Behavioral Sciences/Health Education (M)	[ add ]
Bioethics/Health Policy (M)	[ add ]
Bioethics/Medical Humanities (A)	[ add ]
Communication/Health Communication (B)	[ add ]
Communication/Health Communication (M)	[ add ]
Community Based Health Assessment (M)	[ add ]
Community Health (A)	[ add ]
Community Health Education (D)	[ add ]
Community Health Promotion (B)	[ add ]
Exercise Science/Health Promotion (M)	[ add ]
Exercise/Fitness/Health Promotion (M)	[ add ]
Global Public Health (M)	[ add ]
Health Education/Behavior (B)	[ add ]
Health Professions Technology (A)	[ add ]
Health Promotion (D)	[ add ]
Health Promotion (M)	[ add ]
Health Promotion Management (M)	[ add ]
Health Promotion Sciences (D)	[ add ]
Health Promotion/Behavior (B)	[ add ]
Health Promotion/Behavior (M)	[ add ]
Health Promotion/Education (B)	[ add ]
Health Promotion/Education (D)	[ add ]
Health Promotion/Education/Behavior (D)	[ add ]
Health Promotion/Health Education (M)	[ add ]
Health Promotion/Human Performance (M)	[ add ]
Health Promotion/Wellness Management (M)	[ add ]
Health/Health Promotion/Wellness (B)	[ add ]
Healthcare Informatics/Information Management (M)	[ add ]
Information Sciences/Health Communication (M)	[ add ]
International Health Policy Management (M)	[ add ]
International Public Health (B)	[ add ]
Maternal/Child Health (B)	[ add ]
Public Health Education (D)	[ add ]
Public Health Education (M)	[ add ]
Public Health Education/Heath Promotion (B)	[ add ]
Public Health Education/Promotion (B)	[ add ]
Public Health/Environmental Sciences (D)	[ add ]
Services to the Aging (M)	[ add ]

Institutions Offering Related Majors

College	Key Facts	Add to XapPack
Auburn University	[ view ]	[ add ]
Bacone College	[ view ]	[ add ]
Baldwin-Wallace College	[ view ]	[ add ]
Brandeis University	[ view ]	[ add ]
Central Michigan University	[ view ]	[ add ]
College of St. Scholastica	[ view ]	[ add ]
Eastern Michigan University	[ view ]	[ add ]
Emory University	[ view ]	[ add ]
Florida Atlantic University	[ view ]	[ add ]
Gateway Community College	[ view ]	[ add ]
George Mason University	[ view ]	[ add ]
Hampshire College	[ view ]	[ add ]
Illinois Central College	[ view ]	[ add ]
Iowa Central Community College - Fort Dodge Center	[ view ]	[ add ]
Marymount University	[ view ]	[ add ]
Marywood University	[ view ]	[ add ]
McGill University	[ view ]	[ add ]
McLennan Community College	[ view ]	[ add ]
Middlesex Community College	[ view ]	[ add ]
Montgomery College - Rockville	[ view ]	[ add ]
Naugatuck Valley Community College	[ view ]	[ add ]
Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health	[ view ]	[ add ]
New Mexico Highlands University	[ view ]	[ add ]
Northern Illinois University	[ view ]	[ add ]
Norwalk Community College	[ view ]	[ add ]
Oregon State University	[ view ]	[ add ]
Rainy River Community College	[ view ]	[ add ]
Saint Francis University	[ view ]	[ add ]
Seward County Community College	[ view ]	[ add ]
Southwest Missouri State University - Springfield	[ view ]	[ add ]
Southwestern College	[ view ]	[ add ]
Tulsa Community College - Tulsa	[ view ]	[ add ]
Tunxis Community College	[ view ]	[ add ]
Union Institute and University, The	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of Alaska - Fairbanks	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of Delaware	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of Florida	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of Houston	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of Mississippi	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of Nevada - Las Vegas	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of North Alabama	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of North Carolina at Asheville	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of North Texas	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of Oklahoma	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of Oklahoma - Health Sciences Center	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of Puerto Rico - Medical Sciences Campus	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of South Carolina - Columbia	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of Texas - El Paso	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of Toledo	[ view ]	[ add ]
University of Utah	[ view ]	[ add ]