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Health Behavior and Health Education
Health Behavior and Health Education is devoted to the
study of health-related behavior and to the development and evaluation
of educational activities designed to improve individual and community
health. We prepare you to function in leadership positions in educational,
federal, state, and community systems. You will earn to utilize behavioral
science content and research methods to analyze and solve health problems.
You also will become proficient in the design of health promotion and
intervention strategies for disease prevention, focusing on many levels:
family, network, group, and community.
Some samples of job titles our alumni have:
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- Health education program coordinator
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- Chief health educator
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- Director of health education
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- County health educator
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- Patient health education coordinator
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- Paraprofessional educator coordinator
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- Planning director of area health education center
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- School health educator
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- Manager worksite health promotion program
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- Patient education coordinator
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- Coordinator adolescent health program
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- Clinical specialist in health gerontology
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- Health education consultant
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- Administrator of long-term care programs
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- Clinical health educator
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- Long-term care planner
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- Nurse health educator
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- Director of agency on aging
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- Health program coordinator
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- Adult health planning coordinator
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- Program coordinator for hypertension control
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- Smoking cessation contractor
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- Director of community health programming
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- City medical specialist
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- Coordinator of manpower development
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- Cardiovascular disease partnership leader
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Health Management & Policy >>
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Community Health Educator
Geneva Maria Edwards, MPH ’96, Project Director, Public
Housing Health Services Programming, Chicago Department of Public
Health, Chicago, Illinois.
“By formally teaching me health education
and health behavior theories and encouraging me to put those theories
into practice, the School of Public Health gave me the strong foundation
I need to meet my commitment to community service.” |
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