Health Educator

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Health educators provide information on health and health related issues. They can assess health training needs and plan health education programs. They may specialize according to specific health concerns, illnesses, or work as independent consultants on health departments, community, organizations, business, hospitals, schools, or government agencies. Health educators:

·         Perform health training needs assessments.

·         Design and develop health education programs.

·         Publish health education materials, information papers, and grant proposals.

·         Develop health education curriculum.

·         Teach health in public and private schools.

Average Salary: $20,000 - $35,000

Educational Requirements:

            Students should take college preparatory courses during high school

Health educators have, as minimum, a bachelor’s degree in health education. Many have master’s degrees. To be certified or licensed to teach health in public schools requires a master’s degree and successful completion of a written exam in many states.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

I would like to be a health educator if I had to choose something in the medical field because you are going to be teaching others about health and won’t have to deal with seeing blood or even performing a surgery and that is what scares me the most.