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	Patient Representatives	Community Health Workers	Health Education Specialists	Social and Human Service Assistants	Medical Assistants
SUMMARY	29% Low Risk	14% Minimal Risk	20% Minimal Risk	25% Low Risk	30% Low Risk
JOB SCORE	5.4/10	6.1/10	7.0/10	6.4/10	5.6/10
POLLING	There hasn't been enough votes on this occupation yet	28% (Low Risk, Based on 15 votes)	36% (Low Risk, Based on 28 votes)	30% (Low Risk, Based on 88 votes)	46% (Moderate Risk, Based on 110 votes)
GROWTH by year 2034	5.2%	11.3%	4.5%	6.4%	12.5%
WAGES	$48,790 or $23.45 per hour	$51,030 or $24.53 per hour	$63,000 or $30.29 per hour	$45,120 or $21.69 per hour	$44,200 or $21.25 per hour
VOLUME as of 2024	174,060	60,730	65,150	424,220	793,460
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DESCRIPTION	Assist patients in obtaining services, understanding policies and making health care decisions.	Promote health within a community by assisting individuals to adopt healthy behaviors. Serve as an advocate for the health needs of individuals by assisting community residents in effectively communicating with healthcare providers or social service agencies. Act as liaison or advocate and implement programs that promote, maintain, and improve individual and overall community health. May deliver health-related preventive services such as blood pressure, glaucoma, and hearing screenings. May collect data to help identify community health needs.	Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. Use data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. May link health systems, health providers, insurers, and patients to address individual and population health needs. May serve as resource to assist individuals, other health professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.	Assist other social and human service providers in providing client services in a wide variety of fields, such as psychology, rehabilitation, or social work, including support for families. May assist clients in identifying and obtaining available benefits and social and community services. May assist social workers with developing, organizing, and conducting programs to prevent and resolve problems relevant to substance abuse, human relationships, rehabilitation, or dependent care.	Perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a physician. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding information for insurance purposes. Clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and administering medications as directed by physician.

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