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Assessment of public health educator practice: health educator responsibilities.

This study presents a method for better understanding how practicing health educators in local health departments spend their time. The purpose of this study was to document the daily practice of health educators in the 10 areas of responsibility as defined by a competency-based framework for graduate-level health educators. The results of the current study present the average percentage of tim...

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The Health Educator in a Rural Community *

The rural California county of San Luis Obispo, serving 45,000 population, lacked money, as do most rural counties, for the employment of a health educator. However, early in 1945 the need was considered so urgent that the local Tuberculosis Association decided to include health education experience as a job requisite for its first fulltime executive secretary. Since November, 1945, a trained h...

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benefits in 1953 ___. lion, private carriers were responsible for 62 percent, State funds for 25 percent, and self-insurers for 13 percent. Total State fund disbursements, including payments to Federal Government employees, again increased at a slightly faster rate than private carrier payments-5.6 percent and 4.4 percent, respectively. The unevenness in the rate of increase from State to State...

Prevention in dentistry as viewed by a dental health educator.

The concept of Prevention, in spite of recent vigorous emphasis, is not new to the practice of dentistry; for many years it has been a basic part of the practice of dental public health. The early investigations of those such as McKay’ and others in detecting an elusive fluoride ion and, the developments by Jay and his associates’ in the dietary control of dental caries are just two of the pion...