Health Educators
On the Job
Health Educators design and manage health education programs. They analyze community needs, and then design programs that promote healthy lifestyles and policies. They may serve as a resource to help individuals, other health professionals, or the community.
Typical Work Tasks
People who work in this career often:
- Develop working relationships with others to facilitate program activities.
- Collect information about community health needs.
- Present social services program information to the public.
- Train staff members in social services skills.
- Assess individual or community needs for educational or social services.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of counseling or educational programs.
- Develop educational policies.
- Develop educational programs.
- Develop tools to diagnose or assess needs.
- Plan programs to address community health issues.
Typical Working Conditions
- Using e-mail.
- Freedom to make decisions without supervision.
- Working with a group or team.
- The freedom to determine tasks, priorities, and goals.
- Working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions.
- Meeting strict deadlines.
- Sitting.
- Responsibility for others' health and safety.
- Being in situations in which conflicts arise.
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