Health Educator
Duties and
Responsibilities:
A health
educator promotes most of their ideas about health. Sometimes they even make
programs to encourage people to choose a healthy lifestyle. Health educators
basically, collect data, and find ways how people or the community can live healthier.
They try to look for improvement each time so the people can live healthier. A
health educator sometimes analyzes data, sees people’s weaknesses and tries to
figure out a solution for a certain health issue. They sometimes control or
run, their programs depending what it is. Some Health Educator work for
different issues and see what’s the problem, or if anything needs further
improvement. Many health educators are available for different health issues
that run through our community. Most common issues are basically, environmental
health, and physical health.
Salary:
Median pay
(annual): 41,830 USD (2012)
Median pay
(hourly): 20.11 USD (2012)
Projected
10-year growth: 21% (2012)
Education: First step in order to be a health educator is to
have a Bachelor’s Degree in health care. Sometimes a High School diploma can
get you a spot. Also, some high school undergraduates might be accepted as
well. They have to take one year program. Then they have to take special
training. Most raining is done on the job.
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