Students interested in assisting individuals and communities live a healthier, happier life, choose health education as a major. The health educator then works as a catalyst to empower the community or individual to change that issue in such a way as to promote health and prevent disease.
Health education is a central component of community health.
Community health educators are experts in prevention program development, implementation, evaluation and management. As health educators, we are not interested in treatment per se, but rather with developing community-based educational programs which promote health and prevent disease. To be an effective health educator, you must like people and believe in both the individual's and the society's ability to change. You must be committed to advocating for the rights of people to have the ability and the resources to make healthy choices. Health educators become experts at group process and communication.