Chapter 7

Question 1

What are the four major settings health education specialists are employed?

Answer 1

1. Schools/school districts
2. Healthcare settings (hospitals, clinics)
3. Public/community health agencies
4. Workplace settings (corporations, businesses)

Question 2

Schools/school districts

Answer 2

Schools play an important role in promoting the health and safety of children and adolescents by helping them to establish lifelong health patterns

Question 3

Schools/school district job title examples

Answer 3

School health educator
Health counselor
District wellness coordinator

Question 4

Healthcare job examples

Answer 4

Patient educator director
Lactation consultant

Question 5

Public/community health agencies

Answer 5

Voluntary health agencies ( non-profit, mission driven, patient and community education)
Voluntary/governmental organizations (WIC, Tarzana treatment centers, FDA, planned parenthood)

Question 6

Public/community government and health department job examples

Answer 6

Prevention specialist
Environmental health educator
Accreditation coordinator

Question 7

Work place settings (corporations, businesses)

Answer 7

Combination of educational, organizational and environmental activities, designed to improve the health and safety of employees and their families

Question 8

School health education/promotion advantages

Answer 8

-ability to work with young people during developmental years
- job security
- good benefits
- opportunity to impact all students because health education/promotion is a required course
- potential to prevent harmful health behaviors from forming

Question 9

School health education/promotion disadvantages

Answer 9

• work long hours including weekends and evenings
• low status compared with other teachers
• low pay
• student discipline problems
• summer job since there is no school in summer

Question 10

Public/community health education/promotion advantages

Answer 10

• responsibilities are highly varied and changing
• high community profile
• high degree of self satisfaction
• good benefit packages
• flex above hours

Question 11

Public/community health education/promotion disadvantages

Answer 11

• pay may be low
• relying on volunteers can be frustrating
• never enough money to run all of the programs
• irregular hours

Question 12

Worksite health education/promotion advantages

Answer 12

• opportunities for prevention
• pay is usually higher than other health education settings
• access to fitness facilities for personal use
• access to individuals who don’t participate in community programs

Question 13

Worksite health education/promotion disadvantages

Answer 13

• irregular and long hours
• difficult to move up in the company
• health promotion programs and fitness centers often seem low on a company’s priority list
• strong pressure to be fit and healthy role models for other employees

Question 14

Health education/promotion healthcare setting advantages

Answer 14

• highly varied and changing
• increased credibility
• high community profile
• work with multiple groups of people
• wages and benefits are good

Question 15

Health education/promotion in healthcare settings disadvantages

Answer 15

• low status and low priority within healthcare settings
• jobs are difficult to obtain
• long and irregular hours
• medical doctors may be difficult to work with