c7 Flashcards
Community health education
health ed/promotion programs conducted in departments of health, voluntary agencies, hospitals, religious orgs etc
coordinated school health program
coordinates and integrates various aspects of a school district to best impact the health of the students, faculty, staff, administrations, and community as a whole
-includes food services, nursing services, school counseling and psychology, health instruction, physical education, administration, school environment, community involvement and faculty/staff wellness
school education/promotion
instructing school-age children about health and health-related behaviors
Networking
establishing and maintaining a wide range of contacts in the field that may be of help when looking for a job and in carrying about one’s job responsibiliites once hired
important in health education/promotion? yes bc it provides roesouces for job searing and info
hard money
funds used to support health ed/promot positions and programs that are part of the regular budget of an employer
- job security tends to be good
- hired directlly by commonuty/pub health agenciy
soft money
money secured through grants
- positions termeninated when grant funding is discontinued so job secruity can be a concern
- funds to suport health ed/promot positions and programs secured through grants or contracts, which may be discoontinued at the end of a designated period
Portfolio
collection of evidence that enables students to demonstrate mastery of diesired course or program outcomes
service learning
course credit for students to work with a community agency to meet an identified community need
-provides hands on real work practiec experience
voluntary health agencies
orgs taht are created by concerned citizens to deal w/ healht needs not met by gov agencies \; rely heavily on volunteer help and donatoions to funciton
-mision can be public education, prof education, patient education, research, driect services and support to or for people direclty affect by health issues
- American Heart Association
- American Lung ASsocation
- American Cancer Society
Four major settings in which health education specialists are employed
1) School health education/promotion
2) Public or community health ed/promotion
3) Worksite health ed/promotion
4) Health ed/promotion in healthcare settings
5) Health ed/prmot in colleges and universities
6) International opp (global health)
7) nontraditional : journalism, TB or radio
advantages of School health education/promotion
- health ed specialists have the ability to work w/ young ppl during their dev years
- have potential to prevent harmful health behaviors from forming instead of working w/ older ppl after such behaviors have been formed
- have the opp to impact all students because health ed/promot is usuually a required course
- graduate degree is not needed for entry-level employment
- good job security
- summer months are free
- benefits = good
- multifaceted career ladder
- typically good health and retirement benefit programs
disadvantages of School health education/promotion
-spent many long hours at job
-low status in a school distrcit when comparee w/ teachers of more traditional subjects (math science)
-pay is low compared w/ prof in other filed but compara le w/ that of other health ed specialists\
-student discipline problems are often seen as major disadvantage
summer free time may be consumed w/ summer employment or returning to college for additional required work
-difficult dealing w/ conservative school boards, parents, and community groups when teaching controversial issues such as sex ed
-resources may be limited to support the program
responsibilities of School health education/promotion
- teach in classroom
- advocate for school health policy
- lesson planning, grading, parent meetings, displining, coaching , adminstrative dues
- curriculum dev, review of mateiral sof rclass room use, k
- active members of prof org
advantages of Public or community health ed/promotion
- job responsibilites are highly varied and changing
- strong emphasis on prevention
- ussulaly high community profile
- work w/ multiple groups of ppl
- high degree of self satisfaction
- typically offer good benefit packages
- typically allow flex time when working evenings or weekeneds
disadvantages of Public or community health ed/promotion
- pay may be low, particularly in voluntary agencies
- soft vs hard money
- relying heavily on volunteers can be frustrating; some may not commit very well
- not enough money to run all programs that need to be offered in the way they should be
- require irregular hours
- lot of beruearcracy in pub healht agencies
responsibilities of Public or community health ed/promotion
planning, implementing, and evaluating programs and events are major tasks, but, in conducting these tasks, health ed specialists get invovled in fund-raising, coalition building, committee work, budgeting, general administration, public speaking, volunteer recruitment, grant writing, media relations, and advocacy
advantages of Worksite health ed/promotion
-affords excellent opp for prevention
proivdes access to individ who may not participate in community programs
-work w/ multiple and diverse groups of ppl, including everyone form upper management to shift workers
-most enjoy positions and report high degree of job satisfaction
-pay is usually higher than in other settings; benefits are usually good but vary from employer to employer
-have access to fitness faciilites for perosnal use
disadvantages of Worksite health ed/promotion
-long/irregular hours
-upward mobility may be a porblem; typically there are only 1or two mangerial positions in helaht promotion at any given work site; makes it diffuclt for health ed spec to move up; in addition those holding managerial positions as directors of health and fitness have nowher to move up in a componay unless they are willing to get out of health poromtion field
0health prom programs and fitness center often seem to be low on company’s priority list; first to receive budget cuts and short of staff
-some companies subcontract thier health promotion and fitness programs to outside vendors; some fo these outside vendors hire part time health ed specialists, pay lower wages, and provide few or no benefits
-have storng pressure to be extremely fit and be healhty role models to other employees
responsibilites of Worksite health ed/promotion
varied in a coporaote health promotion center
- some faciilies: maintain record such as who is using center, which programs are most popular, fitness assemsnet results, and healht profiles
- creation and updating of bulletin boards, equipment maintenance, towel distribution and laundering
- annual healht fairs, company-wide health screenings flu shot programs
- advocaating for pop based comporate wide plicies, rules, regulations to enhacne health of employees
advantages of working in health care setting
- highly vaired/changing
- increaded credibulity due to healthcare connection
- usually hihg community profile
- work w/ multiple gorups of ppl
- good wages/benefits
- high degree of self-satisfaction
disadvantages of working in health care setting
- health ed/prmo may have low status and low priority
- msut continually justify porgram’s value
- jobs are difficult to obtain
- turf issues over edducational responsibilites can develop
- long/irregular hours
- some doctors may be difficult to work w/
responsibilities of working in health care setting
- can differ from one healthcare stetting to another
- planning, implementing, and evaluating programs/events
- grant wiritng, one-on-one or grpoup patient education servicies, publiciyt, public relations, employee wellness activities, and various collaboritve effors w/ other hospital staff, community agencies, or departments of public health
- administration; hired as manger, directors, or coordiinators of programs
- serve as resoures for other team members who actually present the programs
International opp (global health)
- disadvant: living/working conditions may be worse than U.S.
- advan: rewarding and involablue experience good for prof dev
- duties: create imnnovative programs to solve indentified health programs; must be low cost, easily dev and implemented, accptable to social and clutrual norms of community and available to assl l apsects of ppl being served;
nontraditional settings
advantage: diff aresas: sale positions (pharmascy, fitness equpment and sale of textbooks; life and healht insurance; tv newspaper, articples
- unique job opp
- disad: need to really sell themselves to get position
