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)

 Number of jobs: 99,400 (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.

Dentist

      Duties and Responsibilities: A dentist is usually someone who professionalize with dental care. Regular dentist checkups are done to keep track how dirty or how clean someone’s teeth is. That’s why it’s important to be hygienic. A dentist knows how to clean teeth properly. Sometimes they have to deal with a patient’s cavity by filling it. Sometimes people don’t take care of their teeth properly that they even get infection. A dentist would treat the infection right away. Other times dentists perform dental surgeries, depending on the case. Some more complex cases are when a dentist needs to do dental implants. They need to know how much amount of anesthesia is needed before the surgeries. Therefore, dentists have multiple tasks.

Salary: Median pay (annual): 149,310 USD (2012)

Median pay (hourly): 71.79 USD (2012)

Entry level education: Doctoral or professional degree

Projected 10-year growth: 16% (2012)

Number of jobs: 146,800 (2012)

     Education: In order to be a dentist, you need to have a bachelor’s degree before you start in a dental school. 4 years of dental school is required as well. Massive training is wanted as well. You need to have a license in order to be a dentist. Without a dentistry license you can’t be a dentist anywhere around the U.S. The dentistry license has to be earned in a certain way.

Chiropractor

Responsibilities and Duties:

     Chiropractors are people who work on alternative medicine and help their patients with back problems and other body disorders occurring in the skeletal muscular system. Most patients have a common problem with their spines and chiropractors have responsibilities to relief their patient’s pain. Most common cases when you need to see a chiropractor is in when there is lower back pain, headaches, neck pain, repetitive strains, sports injuries, arthritic pain, and car accident injuries. Chiropractors either do massages or other exercises like adjustments to relief pain. Some can be painful as they are performed, but as soon as that’s over then relief kicks in.

Salary: $97,380- $136,591

Education:

      To be a chiropractor you need to have specific training. 4 years of health education is needed, and 1,000 hours of supervised clinical training is needed as well. 1 – 4 years of pre-requisite training in basic sciences at university level followed by a 4-year full‐time doctorate program; DC. A 5-year integrated bachelor degree; BSc (Chiro). A 2 - 3 year Master's degree following the completion of a bachelor's degree leads to the MSc (Chiro) might come in handy.