You should become a health educator if you care about helping people live healthier, more complete lives. Health educators focus on the holistic health and the issues and problems that impact quality of life. Health education is an applied interdisciplinary science that draws from the biological, environmental, psychological, physical and medical sciences to promote health and prevent disease, disability and premature death through education-driven voluntary behavior change activities.
Health educators develop individual, group, institutional, community and systemic strategies to improve health knowledge, attitudes, skills and behavior. The purpose of the profession is to positively influence the health behavior of individuals and communities as well as the living and working conditions that influence their health.
As a professional health educator, you will work to improve the health status of individuals, families, communities, states, and the nation. By focusing on prevention, you will help reduce the costs (both financial and human) that individuals, employers, families, insurance companies, medical facilities, communities, the state and the nation would spend on medical treatment.
Download the Coalition of National Education Organization's brochure about the Health Education profession -