Choosing Health
The Health Trainer Role:
"In keeping with a shift in public health approaches from ‘advice on high to support next door', Health Trainers will be drawn from local communities, understanding the day-to-day concerns and experiences of people that they are supporting on health.
In touch with the realities of the lives of the people they work with and with a shared stake in improving they communities that they live in, health trainers will be friendly, approachable, understanding and supportive.
Offering practical advice and good connections into the services and support locally, they will become an essential common sense resource in the community to help out with health choices."
Choosing Health: Making Healthier Choices Easier - Public Health White Paper (2004)