Health Educator

              Health Educator

Duties and Responsibilities:

Health Educators teach people about behaviors that help you stay healthier. They create and use strategies to improve health of individuals and communities. They also discuss health concerns with members of specific populations or communities.

Salary:

Health Educators make an average of 41,830 USD as of 2012.

Education:

The minimum requirement to become a health educator is a bachelor’s degree, although most hold master’s degrees. They must also take educative classes. To become certified one must complete a competency based exam administered by the National Commission of Health Education Credentialing. In order to take the test you must turn in a transcript of your health education coursework. Some employers don’t require that you be certified but often prefer that you are. Some places, depending on location, absolutely require that you are certified if not they simply do not employ you. If you are certified it also allows you to charge more just because you have a title in your field of work.

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Reflection:

I wouldn’t like to be a health educator because it seems like a job where you have to go to school so much and in the end I believe it is a very boring job as to what I’ve done in the past. But, I would consider because it seems like one of those jobs that gives you a lot of time to rest and be on vacation, a more lax job, which is good but in the end I just believe overall this job would simply slowly drain the life out of me.