Career path
Health Education Specialist
Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. Use data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. May link health systems, health providers, insurers, and patients to address individual and population health needs. May serve as resource to assist individuals, other health professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.
What this work leans on
PRISM reads 29 signals about how a person thinks, decides and works. These are the ones this path draws on most.
- AgreeablenessCentral
How cooperative, trusting, and oriented toward others' interests you are.
- Social InterestsCentral
Your interest in helping, teaching, and working with people in supportive ways.
- RecognitionCentral
How much you value visible status, advancement, and being seen for your work.
- Investigative InterestsCentral
Your interest in analyzing, researching, and understanding how things work.
- ExtraversionCentral
How energized you are by social interaction and external stimulation.
- OpennessImportant
How drawn you are to new ideas, aesthetic experiences, and unconventional approaches.
All 6 signals above are measured directly in the assessment. See the full method
The basics
- Field
- Public sector & NGOs
- Job titles you'll see
- Health Education Specialists
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