AI exposure: Health Education Specialists
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.
Reading this score
computed38.5% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts Health Education Specialists at the 68th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 2.6 out of 4 on what a current system can produce, and the frictions that hold other jobs in place are comparatively weak here.
What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 16 tasks it averages 1.97 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.
The most exposed thing this job does is Develop, prepare, and coordinate grant applications and grant-related activities to obtain..., at 73.3%. The least is Supervise professional and technical staff in implementing health programs, objectives, and..., at 8.3%. A gap of 65.0% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.
Within community and social service occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 14 roles in the group is 24.4%, and only 0 of them score higher than this. Occupational families are not uniform, and the spread inside them is often wider than the gap between them.
What would move this score. Of 16 tasks, 13 are currently banded exposed, 1 assisted and 2 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take cheaper ways to verify output, since the cost of checking is currently doing more to hold this work in place than the cost of producing it. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
Task by task
16 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Develop, prepare, and coordinate grant applications and grant-related activities to obtain funding for health education programs and related work. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.62 | exposed |
| Maintain databases, mailing lists, telephone networks, and other information to facilitate the functioning of health education programs. | 66.7% | 33.3% | 0.0% | 4.07 | exposed |
| Document activities and record information, such as the numbers of applications completed, presentations conducted, and persons assisted. | 66.7% | 33.3% | 0.0% | 4.04 | exposed |
| Develop operational plans and policies necessary to achieve health education objectives and services. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.81 | exposed |
| Develop educational materials and programs for community agencies, local government, and state government. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 3.82 | exposed |
| Develop and present health education and promotion programs, such as training workshops, conferences, and school or community presentations. | 42.5% | 32.5% | 25.0% | 3.99 | exposed |
| Provide program information to the public by preparing and presenting press releases, conducting media campaigns, or maintaining program-related Web sites. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 3.78 | exposed |
| Provide guidance to agencies and organizations on assessment of health education needs and on development and delivery of health education programs. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 3.46 | exposed |
| Develop, conduct, or coordinate health needs assessments and other public health surveys. | 33.3% | 29.2% | 37.5% | 3.84 | exposed |
| Design and conduct evaluations and diagnostic studies to assess the quality and performance of health education programs. | 33.3% | 29.2% | 37.5% | 3.64 | exposed |
| Prepare and distribute health education materials, such as reports, bulletins, and visual aids, to address smoking, vaccines, and other public health concerns. | 30.0% | 20.0% | 50.0% | 4.12 | exposed |
| Develop and maintain health education libraries to provide resources for staff and community agencies. | 30.0% | 20.0% | 50.0% | 3.71 | exposed |
| Design and administer training programs for new employees and continuing education for existing employees. | 28.3% | 21.7% | 50.0% | 3.38 | exposed |
| Collaborate with health specialists and civic groups to determine community health needs and the availability of services and to develop goals for meeting needs. | 16.7% | 33.3% | 50.0% | 3.85 | assisted |
| Develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with agencies and organizations interested in public health care. | 11.7% | 13.3% | 75.0% | 4.10 | untouched |
| Supervise professional and technical staff in implementing health programs, objectives, and goals. | 8.3% | 16.7% | 75.0% | 3.84 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
Where the score comes from
judgedEvery task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.
| Dimension | Mean | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | 2.62 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 0.59 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 1.31 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 1.19 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.97 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.56 | 0-3 |
What this means in practice
Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.
Occupations either side of this one
The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.
Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.