#1151
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:24:08 -0400
From: Weinreich@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: textbook
Colleen--
There are a few books I would recommend for your course on social
marketing/health communications:
1) Marketing Social Change by Alan Andreasen (Jossey-Bass) is the best out
right now. It provides an excellent and in-depth discussion of social
marketing and how to create behavior change. I would highly recommend this
as your primary text.
2) Social Marketing: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives, edited by
Marvin Goldberg, Martin Fishbein and Susan Middlestadt (Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates) includes chapters from both academics and practitioners in the
field on theory and case studies. It is a good compilation of issues facing
the field.
3) Designing Health Messages: Approaches from Communication Theory and
Public Health Practice, edited by Edward Maibach and Roxanne Louiselle
Parrott (Sage Publications) is a book I have found very useful in thinking
about what makes effective health communications.
I also have a book in progress that provides a step-by-step guide to
developing social marketing programs, and it will be coming out early next
year from Sage. Probably not soon enough for your purposes, though.
Hope this was helpful. Feel free to contact me for any additional
information or references.
Nedra Kline Weinreich
Weinreich Communications
weinreich@aol.com
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#1152
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 03:56:30 -0700
From: Isabel Burk
Subject: Report on Alcohol and Health
FYI: Excellent resource available from NIAAA:
>=20
> Ninth Special Report on Alcohol and Health Marks
> Research Gains
>=20
> For Release: July 18, 1997
>=20
> NIAAA Contacts:
> Ann Bradley : 301/443-3860
> Diane Miller: 301/443-3860
>=20
> Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala announces the
> availability of the Ninth
> Special Report to the U.S. Congress on Alcohol and Health, the latest i=
n
> a series of triennial
> reports begun in 1970. The report highlights recent research on the
> effects of alcohol use, abuse, and
> dependence on individuals and society, new knowledge about the
> mechanisms of those effects, and
> progress since 1992 in developing interventions to prevent and treat
> alcohol damage.
>=20
> "About 14 million Americans=97almost 10 percent of adults=97meet diagno=
stic
> criteria for alcohol
> abuse and alcoholism," writes Secretary Shalala in the foreword. While
> the proportion of adults with
> these medical disorders has been similar each time that problem
> prevalence surveys have been
> conducted, other epidemiologic measures show change: Abstention has
> increased and heavy
> drinking has decreased among U.S. adults. Per capita alcohol
> consumption, which peaked during
> the 1980s, in 1993 reached the lowest level since 1964. Increased healt=
h
> concerns, less tolerant
> attitudes toward drinking, and increased social and legal sanctions
> against drinking and driving are
> possible reasons for these changes, the report suggests.
>=20
> Drinking patterns and problem prevalence vary substantially by gender,
> age, ethnicity, and among
> discrete subgroups of these broad classifications. As in past reports,
> the rate of alcohol abuse and
> alcoholism among men is almost three times that for women. Separate
> analyses show that, although
> per capita consumption since 1980 has declined less markedly among
> women, men continue to
> drink more and report more alcohol-related problems than women. Heavy
> drinking, alcohol abuse,
> and alcoholism are most prevalent among 18- through 29-year-olds of bot=
h
> genders and least
> prevalent among persons aged 60 and older. Although heavy drinking and
> monthly and daily alcohol
> use among high school seniors have declined since the 1980s, the declin=
e
> is less among
> college-bound seniors, and binge drinking is a widespread problem on
> college campuses.
>=20
> Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality remain significant problems. As
> many as 44 percent of more
> than 40,000 traffic crash fatalities each year involve alcohol and,
> although such crashes are
> decreasing, young drivers continue to be over-represented in drinking
> driving deaths. Liver cirrhosis,
> on the decline since 1973, remains the 11th leading cause of death, and
> heavy drinking contributes
> to other leading killers: heart disease, stroke, and certain cancers.
>=20
> The population distribution of alcohol disorders and other alcohol
> damage provides clues for
> understanding how that damage can be mediated by individual attributes
> and environmental
> influences. The Ninth Special Report describes these interactions in
> eleven chapters on genetic,
> psychological, and sociocultural influences on alcohol use and abuse;
> actions of alcohol on the brain;
> neurobehavioral effects of alcohol consumption; effects on health and
> body systems; effects on fetal
> and postnatal development; effects on behavior and safety, the economic
> aspects of alcohol use and
> related problems, prevention; treatment; and health services research.
> Produced by the National
> Institutes of Health=92s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
> Alcoholism with guidance from a
> distinguished editorial advisory board and contributions from some of
> the world=92s foremost alcohol
> researchers, the 450-page referenced volume is a resource for
> researchers, treatment and
> prevention practitioners, and policy makers.
>=20
> Across the alcohol research spectrum, the report documents new gains
> from the 25-year Federal
> investment in alcohol research. Since the previous report, geneticists
> using animal models have
> identified several quantitative traits including alcohol preference,
> alcohol sensitivity, and severity of
> withdrawal that are believed to underlie a drinker=92s response to
> alcohol. Systematic efforts are
> underway in large human populations with high alcoholism prevalence to
> detect and map the specific
> genes involved in alcoholism susceptibility, determine how gender and
> other factors modify that
> susceptibility, and identify the biological and psychological factors
> that influence the relationship
> between primary gene products and drinking behavior.
>=20
> "The alcohol field is uniquely poised to take full advantage of the
> tools and techniques of today=92s
> science to fully explore biobehavioral linkages," says National
> Institutes of Health Director Harold
> Varmus, M.D., in the report preface." This exploration will add
> significantly to our overall
> understanding of other diseases where biology and behavior are so
> closely intertwined."
>=20
> The relationship of the brain to behavior is the focus of neuroscience
> research, where scientists are
> characterizing the many cellular and molecular mechanisms by which
> alcohol produces immediate
> and long-term changes in CNS activity. Unlike other psychotropic drugs
> that work through a single
> receptor, alcohol affects many cellular sites and processes including
> neurotransmitter receptors, cell
> membranes, intracellular mechanisms, and gene expression to produce
> intoxication, tolerance,
> dependence, and withdrawal=97all behaviors potentially mediated by
> pharmacologic agents. In
> addition to naltrexone, the anticraving medication approved in 1994 for
> use in alcoholism treatment,
> NIAAA researchers are evaluating other anticraving medications,
> detoxification agents,
> alcohol-sensitizing agents, and medications for use in patients with
> coexisting psychiatric disorders.
> Effectively combining behavioral and pharmacologic therapies for
> different patient types is a focus of
> current research.
>=20
> The Ninth Special Report introduces several new applications for alcoho=
l
> research, including the
> recently tested and proved AMPS program, a resistance education program
> for high-risk 6th grade
> students that demonstrated positive results through grade 12, and
> Project Northland, a
> community-based intervention that reduced the onset of alcohol use,
> drinking prevalence, and the
> combination of cigarette and alcohol use among 6th, 7th, and 8th grade
> students. Researchers also
> demonstrated that reduced blood alcohol level laws for young drivers
> reduce single-vehicle nighttime
> crashes, with the greatest effect achieved by zero tolerance laws.
> According to NIAAA Director
> Enoch Gordis, M.D., "Our researchers are conducting controlled trials i=
n
> prevention and have
> shown not only that social and regulatory policies can be researched bu=
t
> that the application of
> research findings to policy can save lives."
>=20
> Recently validated research applications for clinical practice include
> behavioral therapies to prevent
> relapse and brief interventions for use by primary care professionals t=
o
> help nondependent problem
> drinkers curtail drinking. NIAAA=92s health services research program a=
lso
> aims to improve the
> accessibility, quality, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of
> prevention and treatment.
>=20
> Bound copies are available for $11 by written request to NIAAA, P.O. Bo=
x
> 10686, Rockville,
> Maryland 20849-0686
> --
> Isabel Burk, M.S., CHES
> Director, The Health Network
> (914) 638-3569 Fax: (914) 638-1928
> iburk@mail.idt.net
--=20
Isabel Burk, M.S., CHES
Director, The Health Network
(914) 638-3569 Fax: (914) 638-1928
iburk@mail.idt.net
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#1153
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 13:41:53 -0500
From: "by way of \"Mark J. Kittleson, Ph.D.\" "
Subject: Fwd: Position opening
Attached is an announcement for a public health educator at the National
Eye
Institute. Please share this with your colleagues.
Public Health
Educator
The National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health in
Bethesda,
Maryland, has an opening for a Public Health Educator, GS-9 or
GS-11, in
the Office of Health Education and Communication. This individual
will
be responsible for a wide range of health education activities
including
planning, implementing, and evaluating health education
programs;
coordinating activities of organizations that work with the NEI on
eye
health education programs; and conducting a variety of needs
assessment
activities to develop new materials, new program areas, and other
health
education related activities. Desired applicants should hold a
Master's
degree in health education, public health, or related field
or
equivalent experience in program planning and
development,
implementation, and evaluation of health education programs at
the
national or state level. CHES is desirable. Annual salary is
from
$31,680 at the GS-9 level and from $38,330 at the GS-11 level.
U.S.
citizenship is required. For application and additional
information,
call Regina Reiter or Barbara DiSimone on (301) 496-4274.
Applications
MUST be postmarked by August 18. NIH IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
EMPLOYER.
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#1154
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 13:11:40 +0000
From: Glen Gilbert
Subject: Move
Friends and Colleagues
It is my great pleasure to announce that I have accepted the
offer to become Professor and Chair of the Department of Health
Education at East Carolina University. It is an opportunity to work
with a great faculty and Greenville is wonderful place to live. Please
make note of this change which will be effective August 11th. Thanks
Glen
New Address
Dr. Glen G. Gilbert
Department of Health Education
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
gilbertg@mail.ecu.edu
919-328-6000
fax 919-328-1285
----------------------
Dr. Glen Gilbert
Department of Health Education
University of Maryland
gg7@umail.umd.edu
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#1155
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 08:51:09 -0400
From: BONAGURO
Subject: Call for RCB Abstracts
The AAHE Research Coordinating Board (RCB) invites researchers and
practitioners to submit papers to be considered for presentation at the 1998
National Convention of the American Association for Health Education.
Abstracts relating to intregrating research and practice, research methods, and
professional preparation are encouraged. Abstracts from practitioners and
students are encouraged. Studies that have preliminary results are acceptable
for review but will be judged more rigorously than a completed study.
The AAHE RCB also encourages submission of abstracts for a one-hour research
symposium session. The session shall be organized by one researcher who is
responsible for coordinating at least two and not more than three presentations
regarding a significant health education topic or theme. The procedure for
submitting an abstract for a symposium is the same as for the regular research
paper or poster except an abstract for each presenter is required. The entire
session is to last 60 minutes with the last 10 minutes devoted to questions and
answers.
Abstracts must be received no later than Spetmeber 1, 1997. Using a photocopy
of the form provided be sure to address each of the areas mentioned. Because
continuing education credits/units are being pursued for the AAHE RCB session,
behavioral objectives must be clearly stated and a one or two page biography of
the individual(s) making the presentation at the conference are necessary with
submitted abstracts for a regular research paper or symposium but not for
poster session consideration.
Abstracts will be reviewed by a committee of the AAHE RCB in a blind review
process. All applications will be notified about acceptance or rejection of
their abstract on or before November 1, 1997. All abstracts must be
accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed reply envelope with one original and
three blind copies of the abstract. The behavioral objectives and biography
indicated above also need to be submitted with the abstract. No facsimile
copies will be accepted. only abstracts adhering to theses instructions will
be considered for presentation. Accepted abstracts will be published and
available for sale at the Reno Convention.
For a copy of the abstract form, please refer to the May/June copy of X-Tra or
send a note to Linda Moore at lmoore@aahperd.org to receive an abstract form by
mail.
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#1156
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 10:09:44 -0500
From: Elizabeth Henderson
Subject:
I received the following 3 responses to my question re the ratio of health
educators to population. I've been asked to share them with the HEDIR.
Thanks again to those who responded.
-Liz Henderson
hendee@mail.health.state.mo.us
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I assume Larry Green was referring to public or community health
educators who would assess community health status and education
needs, and then plan and implement programs in conjunction with others
who act as health educators for at least part of their available time --
whether it be work or voluntary. If everyone who fullfills these essential
functionas were included (ie. medical care providers, industrial
hygieneists, safety officers, teachers, social workers, etc.), I would
think the ratio would be much higher. If you find the specific Larry Green
reference, I would be interested.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have not seen recent numbers, but as I recall, the 1:25,000 ratio was
originally proposed by Rosemary Kent who used to be on the faculty at
the University of Tennessee. I think she published that in about 1976,
1977, in the American Journal of Public Health. I used that number in an
article I published in 1978 in Health Education: Are Baccalaureate Level
community Health Education Specialists an Answer to the Labor
Shortage? volume 9, #2, pp. 6-8. I don't know if this information will help
you, but maybe it will give you a historical perspective.
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You have asked a "loaded" question. There is no easy answer and will
require you to do some reserach and investigation. Ask 5 different
researchers and you will probably get 5 different answers. The
inportant thing is to have a rationale for your decision as there is no
one right answer.
My suggestion is to get the book, "Applied Multiple Regression/correlation
Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences." By Cohen and Cohen (1983)
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Look around page 117 and you will find a formula
for determining your sample size so that you have appropriate power.
sample size = L /f squared + k + 1
k = number of independent variables
L = Appendix table E.1 p.526
f squared = R squared / 1-R
R squared = estimated effect size.
etc....
Check the text for further explanations. It is too detailed for me to
go on via e-mail.
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#1157
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 09:25:19 -0500
From: "Steve G. Gabany"
Subject: applications of health education models -- web sites?
hi: am looking for web sites that show the use of some of the major
models, such as health belief, self-efficacy, and reasoned action.
would appreciate any links you know of.
Thanks
***************************
Steve G. Gabany, Ph.D.
Indiana State University
Dept of Health & Safety
812/237-3108
GABANY@INDSTATE.EDU
***************************
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#1158
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 12:35:52 -0400
From: Patricia Houston
Subject: preventive health messages
I need to write preventive health messages for people who are put on
hold when they call on the telephone. The messages should take anywhere
from 15 seconds to 1 minute to read. Does anyone know if this has been
done and published previously? I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
Thanks.
Patricia Houston
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#1159
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 10:20:03 -0800
From: Lisa Gilbert
Subject: Hottest Contemprorary Health Issues
Hello-
I am preparing to teach (once again) a course titled "Contemporary Issues
in Health." I would like to know what you consider to be the three most
important contemporary health issues in the US today.
I will send a summary of the results to the HEDIR.
THANKS.
Lisa Gilbert
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83843-2401
fax: (208) 885-5929
phone: (208) 885-2183
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#1160
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 12:24:58 -0500
From: "BONAGURO (by way of \"Mark J. Kittleson, Ph.D.\"
)"
Subject: Re: Abstracts for RCB
Been asked to resend this to the HEDIR:
>
>The AAHE Research Coordinating Board (RCB) invites researchers and
>practitioners to submit papers to be considered for presentation at the 1998
>National Convention of the American Association for Health Education.
>Abstracts relating to intregrating research and practice, research methods,
and
>professional preparation are encouraged. Abstracts from practitioners and
>students are encouraged. Studies that have preliminary results are acceptable
>for review but will be judged more rigorously than a completed study.
>
>The AAHE RCB also encourages submission of abstracts for a one-hour research
>symposium session. The session shall be organized by one researcher who is
>responsible for coordinating at least two and not more than three
presentations
>regarding a significant health education topic or theme. The procedure for
>submitting an abstract for a symposium is the same as for the regular research
>paper or poster except an abstract for each presenter is required. The entire
>session is to last 60 minutes with the last 10 minutes devoted to questions
and
>answers.
>
>Abstracts must be received no later than Spetmeber 1, 1997. Using a photocopy
>of the form provided be sure to address each of the areas mentioned. Because
>continuing education credits/units are being pursued for the AAHE RCB session,
>behavioral objectives must be clearly stated and a one or two page biography
of
>the individual(s) making the presentation at the conference are necessary with
>submitted abstracts for a regular research paper or symposium but not for
>poster session consideration.
>
>Abstracts will be reviewed by a committee of the AAHE RCB in a blind review
>process. All applications will be notified about acceptance or rejection of
>their abstract on or before November 1, 1997. All abstracts must be
>accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed reply envelope with one original and
>three blind copies of the abstract. The behavioral objectives and biography
>indicated above also need to be submitted with the abstract. No facsimile
>copies will be accepted. only abstracts adhering to theses instructions will
>be considered for presentation. Accepted abstracts will be published and
>available for sale at the Reno Convention.
>
>For a copy of the abstract form, please refer to the May/June copy of X-Tra or
>send a note to Linda Moore at lmoore@aahperd.org to receive an abstract form
by
>mail.
>
>
>__________________________
Mark J. Kittleson, Ph.D.
Owner and Founder of HEDIR
Home Page: http://www.siu.edu/~kittle
HEDIR Home Page: http://www.siu.edu/~kittle/HEDIR/Menu.html
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#1161
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 10:57:37 -0800
From: Lisa Gilbert
Subject: Hottest Contemprorary Health Issues
Hello-
My apologies if you receive this twice; the first came back to me.
Once again, I am preparing to teach a course titled "Contemporary Issues
in Health."
I would like to know what you consider to be the three most
important contemporary health issues in the US today. I will send a summary
of the results to the HEDIR.
THANKS.
Lisa Gilbert
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83843-2401
fax: (208) 885-5929
phone: (208) 885-2183
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#1162
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 16:20:54 -0700
From: Jim Grizzell
Subject: Re: Hottest Contemprorary Health Issues
At 10:20 AM 8/5/97 -0800, Lisa Gilbert wrote:
>I am preparing to teach (once again) a course titled "Contemporary Issues
>in Health." I would like to know what you consider to be the three most
>important contemporary health issues in the US today.
>
I don't want to take away from Lisa's request but it did give me the idea to pass on
preliminary
information from surveys of our college students and get your ideas. It is sort of
related to
contemporary issues but on a PERSONAL LEVEL FOR COLLEGE STUDENT
S. We did a "wants" survey to ask what they personally want to improve in their
health behaivors
in the next 6 months.
See results (data from 422 of about 700 surveys are on Excel sheets) at the web
page:
http://www.csupomona.edu/health/ShareStuff/needs51h.htm
We received a $2,500 grant to develop, implement and evaluate a social marketing
campaign to
help students do the top 3 to 5 things most are "ready" to do (following the ideas of
Prochaska's
Transtheoretical Model). We do the high risk behavior health ed
. but this is an added program we'll try.
If you have any ideas for marketing message in ads and flyers (we'll do focus groups
soon with
students for ideas), I'd welcome your ideas. Jim
0000,0000,8080Jim Grizzell,
MA CHES
ffff,0000,0000"71%
of Cal Poly Pomona students drink 0 or only 1 alcoholic drink per
week."
E-mail:
mailto:jvgrizzell@csupomona.edu
Web Pages: http://www.csupomona.edu/health/shshealth.html &
http://www.cyberg8t.com/grizzell
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#1163
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:41:04 +0900
From: Lisa Reisberg
Subject: School-based Tobacco Cessation Programs
Ray Coleman, MD, a pediatrician in Maryland and member of the American
Academy of Pediatrics, is seeking information about school-based
tobacco cessation programs that incorporate nicotine replacement. He
is also looking for tools to use when selecting candidates for such
programs. If you are aware of any programs, please reply directly to:
alcole@pol.net.
===========================================
Lisa Reisberg, Director
Division of Public Education
American Academy of Pediatrics
141 Northwest Pt Blvd
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Phone: 847/981-7873
FAX: 847/228-7320
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#1164
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:54:07 -0700
From: Margo Harris
Subject: Hot Topics
Well, I see many hot topics, and I identify them all as within the health
arena. It's also interesting to me, as I reflected on my choices, that
they come from my current practice/interest/work audience. So here are the
ones near the top of my list, with the caveat that it is by no means an all
inclusive list. Hope you are getting lots privately, since I've seen few
to the list. I decided to be brave!
1. Abuse - I was tempted to say child abuse, since I just completed a
mandatory 10 hour workshop for teaching certification called "Issues of
Abuse" and it focused solely on children. Teachers are mandatory reporters
of even suspected abuse, whether you have evidence or not. I'd broaden
this category to include children, domestic partners, elderly, others.
2. Violence - these two are closely connected. You can't read the daily
newspaper without seeing the signs of this. We have a new vocabulary of
"rage" phrases. Road rage was the label in a recent court case. A driver
was cut off by another; so he drove up to the car and fired a
semi-automatic weapon in to the offending car. Although he stated he
"aimed at the tires," he hit and killed a passenger. Again, the violence
is across the age/relationship span - parental, domestic partner, neighbor,
stranger to stranger, etc. I watched with pride last night, as neighbors
cordoned off streets and had block parties, house to house visitation,
taking back the night and celebrating/working toward the safety of their
neighborhoods. I confess I forget the name of the campaign! I also saw
a new bumper sticker the other day, "I'm a postal worker. Back off!"
3. Quality health care - access to care for all, and quality care in the
challenging environment of managed care. I read the recent issue of
Chronic Disease Notes & Reports, "Public Health and Managed Care: Data
Sharing for Common Goals." I celebrate the involvement of public health in
managed care. Just as I'm not surprised about the travails of
Columbia/HCA, an example of managed care run amok. Public health has a
strong role to play in humanizing managed care and carrying the standard of
the under- or not yet served.
4. Comprehensive health education from K-12 - as we look to prevention
efforts for the hot health topics, K-12 health ed needs to be on that list.
We learn each day how much earlier health behaviors are set than we ever
understood. Cognitive, affective and psychomotor learning and practice is
a life long (i.e. conception to death) "opportunity." Pre K-12 health
education is a gift educators offer society, as well as the children.
Quality comprehensive health education for our children is primary
prevention for a host of health problems that are probably on all of our
"hot topics" list.
My .02 cents. Margo
Margo Harris
Harris Training & Consulting Services, Inc.
Email: htcs@halcyon.com
Internet: http://www.htcs.com/
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#1165
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:22:46 -0700
From: Margo Harris
Subject: Hot Topics with a Smile
A friend just forwarded this to me. I thought it could add to the
discussion! Margo
Another graduation speech to live by (Kurt Vonnegut at MIT, '97):
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:
Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists,
whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my
own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will
not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded.
But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and
recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you
and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is
as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble
gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never
crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some
idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people
who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead,
sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only
with yourself. Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If
you
succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your
life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting
40-year-olds I
know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when
they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children,
maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the
funky
chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't
congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your
choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or
of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll
ever own.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for
good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and
the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you
should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle,
because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew
you when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.
Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians
will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll
fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians
were
noble, and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust
fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when
either
one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will
look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who
supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the
ugly parts
and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
Kurt Vonnegut, 6/97
Margo Harris
Harris Training & Consulting Services, Inc.
Email: htcs@halcyon.com
Internet: http://www.htcs.com/
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#1166
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:19:50 -0700
From: Isabel Burk
Subject: followup to Vonnegut......
Vonnegut? NOT! Another web-snafu. Read on........
Vonnegut? Schmich? Who can tell in cyberspace
Web-posted: Saturday, August 2, 1997
-------- VONNEGUT UNPLUGGED?
The June 1, 1997 Oh, Kurt Vonnegut may appear to be a
column that started brilliant, revered male novelist. I may
it all appear to be a mediocre and virtually unknown
female newspaper columnist. We may appear to
-------- have nothing in common but unruly hair.
RELATED SITE
A copy of the real But out in the lawless swamp of cyberspace,
commencement speech Mr. Vonnegut and I are one. Out there, where
given to the any snake can masquerade as king, both of us
Massachusetts are the author of a graduation speech that
Institute of began with the immortal words, "Wear
Technology sunscreen."
graduating class of
1997 I was alerted to my bond with Mr. Vonnegut
Friday morning by several callers and e-mail
This link takes you correspondents who reported that the
out of the Internet sunscreen speech was rocketing through the
Tribune. The Tribune cyberswamp, from L.A. to New York to
cannot be Scotland, in a vast e-mail chain letter.
responsible for the
site's content. Friends had e-mailed it to friends, who
e-mailed it to more friends, all of whom were
told it was the commencement address given to
the graduating class at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. The speaker was
allegedly Kurt Vonnegut.
Imagine Mr. Vonnegut's surprise. He was not,
and never has been, MIT's commencement
speaker. Imagine my surprise. I recall
composing that little speech one Friday
afternoon while high on coffee and M&M's. It
appeared in this space on June 1. It included
such deep thoughts as "Sing," "Floss," and
"Don't mess too much with your hair." It was
not art.
But out in the cyberswamp, truth is whatever
you say it is, and my simple thoughts on
floss and sunscreen were being passed around
as Kurt Vonnegut's eternal wisdom.
Poor man. He didn't deserve to have his
reputation sullied in this way.
So I called a Los Angles book reviewer, with
whom I'd never spoken, hoping he could help
me find Mr. Vonnegut.
"You mean that thing about sunscreen?" he
said when I explained the situation. "I got
that. It was brilliant. He didn't write
that?"
He didn't know how to find Mr. Vonnegut. I
tried MIT.
"You wrote that?" said Lisa Damtoft in the
news office. She said MIT had received many
calls and e-mails on this year's "sunscreen"
commencement speech. But not everyone was
sure: Who had been the speaker?
The speaker on June 6 was Kofi Annan,
secretary general of the United Nations, who
did not, as Mr. Vonnegut and I did in our
speech, urge his graduates to "dance, even if
you have nowhere to do it but your living
room." He didn't mention sunscreen.
As I continued my quest for Mr. Vonnegut --
his publisher had taken the afternoon off,
his agent didn't answer -- reports of his
"sunscreen" speech kept pouring in.
A friend called from Michigan. He'd read my
column several weeks ago. Friday morning he
received it again -- in an e-mail from his
boss. This time it was not an ordinary column
by an ordinary columnist. Now it was
literature by Kurt Vonnegut.
Fortunately, not everyone who read the speech
believed it was Mr. Vonnegut's.
"The voice wasn't quite his," sniffed one
doubting contributor to a Vonnegut chat group
on the Internet. "It was slightly off -- a
little too jokey, a little too cute . . . a
little too `Seinfeld.' "
Hoping to find the source of this prank, I
traced one e-mail backward from its last
recipient, Hank De Zutter, a professor at
Malcolm X College in Chicago. He received it
from a relative in New York, who received it
from a film producer in New York, who
received it from a TV producer in Denver, who
received it from his sister, who received it.
. . .
I realized the pursuit of culprit zero would
be endless. I gave up.
I did, however, finally track down Mr.
Vonnegut. He picked up his own phone. He'd
heard about the sunscreen speech from his
lawyer, from friends, from a women's magazine
that wanted to reprint it until he denied he
wrote it.
"It was very witty, but it wasn't my
wittiness," he generously said.
Reams could be written on the lessons in this
episode. Space confines me to two.
One: I should put Kurt Vonnegut's name on my
column. It would be like sticking a Calvin
Klein label on a pair of K-Mart jeans.
Two: Cyberspace, in Mr. Vonnegut's word, is
"spooky."
E-mail Mary Schmich at mschmich@tribune.com >>
--
Isabel Burk, M.S., CHES
Director, The Health Network
(914) 638-3569 Fax: (914) 638-1928
iburk@mail.idt.net
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#1167
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 15:34:08 -0800
From: Mark Fulop
Subject: Re: followup to Vonnegut......
> One: I should put Kurt Vonnegut's name on my
> column. It would be like sticking a Calvin
> Klein label on a pair of K-Mart jeans.
>
> Two: Cyberspace, in Mr. Vonnegut's word, is
> "spooky."
>
> --
> Isabel Burk, M.S., CHES
Thanks Isabel for the wonderful clarification. Anyway, I was perplexed at the
first post because I thought Kofi Annan was MIT's commencment speaker this year.
_________________________________________________
Mark Fulop, MPH, CHES fulop@mail.sdsu.edu
Co-Director,
College Health 2000
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#1168
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 21:57:00 -0700
From: Margo Harris
Subject: The Real Author of Hot Topics with a Smile
It didn't burst my bubble at all! I didn't care who wrote it, although I
have read Vonnegut and enjoy his writing--not to mention his Discover card
ad. I just ROTFL (rolled on the floor laughing) when I read it, and it
made my day! Margo
----------
> From: Donohuem@aol.com
> To: htcs@halcyon.com
> Subject: Re: Hot Topics with a Smile
> Date: Wednesday, August 06, 1997 1:28 PM
>
> I hate to burst the bubble, but here goes:
>
> Mary Schmich
> Vonnegut? Schmich? Who can tell in cyberspace?
> Web-posted: Saturday, August 2, 1997
>
> I am Kurt Vonnegut.
>
> Oh, Kurt Vonnegut may appear to be a brilliant revered male novelist. I
may
> appear to be a mediocre and virtually unknown female newspaper columnist.
> We may appear to have nothing in common but unruly hair.
>
> But out in the lawless swamp of cyberspace, Mr. Vonnegut and I are one.
Out
> there, where any snake can masquerade as king, both of us are the author
of
> a graduation speech that began with the immortal words, "Wear sunscreen."
>
> I was alerted to my bond with Mr. Vonnegut Friday morning by several
> callers and e-mail correspondents who reported that the sunscreen speech
> was rocketing through the cyberswamp, from L.A. to New York to Scotland,
in
> a vast e-mail chain letter.
>
> friends had e-mailed it to friends, who e-mailed it to more friends, all
of
> whom were told it was the commencement address given to the graduating
> class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The speaker was
> allegedly Kurt Vonnegut.
>
> Imagine Mr. Vonnegut's surprise. He was not, and never has been, MIT's
> commencement speaker. Imagine my surprise. I recall composing that little
> speech one Friday afternoon while high on coffee and M&M's. It appeared
in
> this space on June 1. It included such deep thoughts as "Sing," "Floss,"
> and "Don't mess too much with your hair." It was not art.
>
> But out in the cyberswamp, truth is whatever you say it is, and my simple
> thoughts on floss and sunscreen were being passed around as Kurt
Vonnegut's
> eternal wisdom.
>
> Poor man. He didn't deserve to have his reputation sullied in this way.
So
> I called a Los Angles book reviewer, with whom I'd never spoken, hoping
he
> could help me find Mr. Vonnegut.
>
> "You mean that thing about sunscreen?" he said when I explained the
> situation. "I got that. It was brilliant. He didn't write that?"
>
> He didn't know how to find Mr. Vonnegut. I tried MIT.
> "You wrote that?" said Lisa Damtoft in the news office. She said MIT had
> received many calls and e-mails on this year's "sunscreen" commencement
> speech. But not everyone was sure: Who had been the speaker?
>
> The speaker on June 6 was Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United
> Nations, who did not, as Mr. Vonnegut and I did in our speech, urge his
> graduates to "dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living
> room." He didn't mention sunscreen.
>
> As I continued my quest for Mr. Vonnegut -- his publisher had taken the
> afternoon off, his agent didn't answer -->reports of his "sunscreen"
speech
> kept pouring in.
>
> A friend called from Michigan. He'd read my column several weeks ago.
> friday morning he received it again -- in an e-mail from his boss. This
> time it was not an ordinary column by an ordinary columnist. Now it was
> literature by Kurt Vonnegut.
>
> Fortunately, not everyone who read the speech believed it was Mr.
Vonnegut's.
>
> "The voice wasn't quite his," sniffed one doubting contributor to a
> Vonnegut chat group on the Internet. "It was slightly off -- a little too
> jokey, a little too cute . . . a little too `Seinfeld.' "
>
> Hoping to find the source of this prank, I traced one e-mail backward
from
> its last recipient, Hank De Zutter, a professor at Malcolm X College in
> Chicago. He received it from a relative in New York, who received it from
a
> film producer in New York, who received it from a TV producer in Denver,
> who received it from his sister, who received it. . . .
>
> I realized the pursuit of culprit zero would be endless. I gave up.
>
> I did, however, finally track down Mr. Vonnegut. He picked up his own
> phone. He'd heard about the sunscreen speech from his lawyer, from
friends,
> from a women's magazine that wanted to reprint it until he denied he
wrote
> it.
>
> "It was very witty, but it wasn't my wittiness," he generously said.
>
> Reams could be written on the lessons in this episode. Space confines me
to
> two.
>
> One: I should put Kurt Vonnegut's name on my column. It would be like
> sticking a Calvin Klein label on a pair of K-Mart jeans.
>
> Two: Cyberspace, in Mr. Vonnegut's word, is "spooky."
>
>
> E-mail Mary Schmich at mschmich@tribune.com
> 1997 Chicago Tribune
>
>
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#1169
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:57:34 -0500
From: "by way of \"Mark J. Kittleson, Ph.D.\" "
Subject: Job: Director of Government Relations & Affiliate Affairs
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#1170
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:56:53 EDT
From: "Mardak, Wendy"
Subject: Additional Education
Just wondering if anyone out there would have any recommendations for a
rookie health educator who has been in the field for about four years now
and is thinking about going back to school. I am a native of, and am
currently working in Wisconsin. Do you know anything about masters
programs at UW-Madison and is there a particular program you would
recommend for someone with an undergraduate degree in Community Health
Education? Though I know enough to inquire at that school, I am wondering
if anyone has seen a trend as far as the job outlook for people with
Masters degrees in any particular area. I really enjoy teaching and
presenting and feel that's where my strengths lie. Also, I have a
particular interest in the effects of society and societal pressures on
health and wellness of people. Would appreciate wisdom anyone would like
to share.
Wendy
NET: wmardak@lhl.gundluth.org
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#1171
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 13:12:51 EDT
From: "Mardak, Wendy"
Subject: Wisdom?
Just wondering if anyone out there would have any recommendations for a
rookie health educator who has been in the field for about four years now
and is thinking about going back to school. I am a native of, and am
currently working in Wisconsin. Do you know anything about masters
programs at UW-Madison and is there a particular program you would
recommend for someone with an undergraduate degree in Community Health
Education? Though I know enough to inquire at that school, I am wondering
if anyone has seen a trend as far as the job outlook for people with
Masters degrees in any particular area. I really enjoy teaching and
presenting and feel that's where my strengths lie. Also, I have a
particular interest in the effects of society and societal pressures on
health and wellness of people. Would appreciate your wisdom.
Wendy
NET: wmardak@lhl.gundluth.org
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#1172
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 14:20:09 -0400
From: Patricia Houston
Subject: Re: Additional Education
Wendy,
Since you are interested in how societal pressures affect individuals
and you enjoy teaching and presenting, I would advise you to get an MPH
from an accredited school of public health, concentrating in community
health education/community development. The trend in health is moving
from individual behavioral change to social change, and more jobs are
opening up at the community level. There are few schools of public
health in the country and I have to admit I don't know Wisconsin at all,
but you can begin investigating all the accredited schools of public
health on the internet at http://www.asph.org Best of luck
Pat
> ----------
> From: Mardak, Wendy[SMTP:WMARDAK@LHL.GUNDLUTH.ORG]
> Reply To: Mardak, Wendy
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 1997 12:56 PM
> To: HEDIR-L@siu.edu
> Subject: Additional Education
>
> Just wondering if anyone out there would have any recommendations for
> a
> rookie health educator who has been in the field for about four years
> now
> and is thinking about going back to school. I am a native of, and am
> currently working in Wisconsin. Do you know anything about masters
> programs at UW-Madison and is there a particular program you would
> recommend for someone with an undergraduate degree in Community Health
> Education? Though I know enough to inquire at that school, I am
> wondering
> if anyone has seen a trend as far as the job outlook for people with
> Masters degrees in any particular area. I really enjoy teaching and
> presenting and feel that's where my strengths lie. Also, I have a
> particular interest in the effects of society and societal pressures
> on
> health and wellness of people. Would appreciate wisdom anyone would
> like
> to share.
>
>
>
> Wendy
>
> NET: wmardak@lhl.gundluth.org
>
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#1173
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:02:41 -0800
From: Mark Fulop
Subject: Re: Additional Education
Mardak, Wendy wrote:
> Though I know enough to inquire at that school, I am wondering
> if anyone has seen a trend as far as the job outlook for people with
> Masters degrees in any particular area. I really enjoy teaching and
> presenting and feel that's where my strengths lie. Also, I have a
Wendy. My 2 cents. Over the past ten years, I have had the chance to
interview a lot of "rookies" (BTW, 4 years experience is not a rookie) as I
have worked in varioujs programs. I am convinced of these things. 1) you
will never get rich as a health educator, 2) increasingly job security will
depend on your ability to keep soft money flowing (ie grants and contracts)
and 3) that, in community/public health education, teaching and presenting
is a bachelor's level competency which increasingly is being detailed to
"community health workers" (translated it's cheaper to teach para-health
educators -- $10/hour -- to give HIV 101 lectures than to pay a masters level
person $35-40K to do the same thing). In other words, a master's degree is
inheriently more administrative, directing and program development and not
community teaching focused at all. -- Final work about Maste's degree
employment, here in San Diego County, to be hired as a health educator in the
public health department requires a Masters degree in Community or Public
health education. In other words, around here if you have your MPH in
Epidemiology or International Health, you wouldn't qualify for a health
educator position.
On Master's programs, I believe there are two types of masters degree
programs. Research oriented programs that generate good researchers ho lack
"real life" professional public health skills and Proferssional programs that
allow you to hit the ground running but are pretty poor in terms of research
skills. I believe that any program suggesting that they do both well does not
have a clear view of themselves. Either they fail to realize they ore either
research oriented or professional oriented or they do both at a mediocre
level.
I post this to the whole HEDIR as I am sure people will disagree with me and
you need multiple perspectives before making decisions.
--
_________________________________________________
Mark Fulop, MPH, CHES fulop@mail.sdsu.edu
Co-Director,
College Health 2000
A Health Promotion Collaborative
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-4701
Phone: 619.594.2869
FAX: 619.594.5613
http://shs.sdsu.edu/ch2000/
Personal WWW page: http://www.znet.com/~hcom/
Projects affiliated with San Diego State University - Student Health Services
http://shs.sdsu.edu
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#1174
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 15:46:11 -0400
From: Undetermined origin c/o LISTSERV administrator
Subject: address change
please change my address to read perkom@uncwil.edu. Thank you.
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#1175
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 16:07:22 -0400
From: Amy Belote
Subject: reply to additional education
Wendy,
In response to your request for recommendations for graduate education,
Mark Fulop wrote that, "people will disagree with me and you need multiple
perspectives before making decisions." I am one of those people who do
disagree, although only with his statement about the polarity of research
and professional training, based on my educational experience.
I recently received a masters degree from a school of public health that
would be characterized as research-oriented. However, the
social/behavioral (health education) track in which I received my degree is
very practice oriented. For example, ~4 of the classes I took (~1 each
term) required students to works in groups on a community/practice-based
assignments that lasted at least throughout the term, and in some cases,
over several terms. The degree program also required a six month field
placement in a real-life health education setting, which was completed
after course work and prior to completion of the program. From what I know
of the other tracks (such as epidemiology or international health) these
professional experiences are not required.
Being in a school of public health's health education department provided
me a balance of the professional, practical, community-orientation skills
with research skills, which might not be available in a 'professional
program'. I have found both sets of skills immensely valuable in the
real-life world of public health.
In sum, an accredited school of public health, with a concentration in
community health or health education/social health will give you a breadth
of experience (including research) that you wouldn't get in a small
community health or health education program at a non-public health school,
while allowing you to develop professional public health skills through
class assignments and supervised internships.
This is just my biased opinion, based on my satisfaction with the graduate
education I chose -- I struggled with the same decision you have, and I
wish you luck! Please contact me if you want to discuss this issue further.
Amy Belote, MHS, CHES
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
624 North Broadway, 6th floor
Baltimore, MD 21205-1901
voice: 410-614-5809
fax: 410-955-0470
email: abelote@hsr.jhu.edu
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#1176
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 15:55:10 -0500
From: 00bskennedy@BSUVC.BSU.EDU
Subject: position available
COORDINATOR OF STUDENT HEALTH EDUCATION, Ball State University,
Muncie, IN.
Professional, continuing contract position available Sept. 8, 1997. Major
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programs at the Student Health Center whose primary mission is to promote
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QUALIFICATIONS: master's degree in health related field, such as public or
community health, nursing, science, wellness, etc. by date of appointment; at
least 3 years of experience in the administration of a health education/
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and programs. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: community health education
specialist (CHES) certification; extensive public speaking experience;
evidence of understanding and application of computer technology to health
education; previous experience in college or community health education
environment; evidence of research and scholarly activity. Competitive salary
and benefits package. Send letter of application, resume, and the names and
addresses of 3 references to: Dr. Donald W. Mikesell, Dean of Students,
Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306. Review of applications will begin
immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Ball State is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and is
strongly and actively committed to diversity within its community.
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#1177
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:28:55 -0400
From: Alyson Taub
Subject: Re: Additional Education
Wendy, There are also accredited health education programs outside
schools of public health. You might want to take a look at our website,
Health Education Professional Resources (HEPR) in two categories:
Professional Preparation Programs and National Credentialing Agencies.
There may be information there of use to you. The URL for HEPR is:
http://www.nyu.edu/education/health/healthed/taub/hepr/noframes/index.html
-- Alyson Taub (alyson.taub@nyu.edu)
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Patricia Houston wrote:
> Wendy,
>
> Since you are interested in how societal pressures affect individuals
> and you enjoy teaching and presenting, I would advise you to get an MPH
> from an accredited school of public health, concentrating in community
> health education/community development. The trend in health is moving
> from individual behavioral change to social change, and more jobs are
> opening up at the community level. There are few schools of public
> health in the country and I have to admit I don't know Wisconsin at all,
> but you can begin investigating all the accredited schools of public
> health on the internet at http://www.asph.org Best of luck
>
> Pat
> > ----------
> > From: Mardak, Wendy[SMTP:WMARDAK@LHL.GUNDLUTH.ORG]
> > Reply To: Mardak, Wendy
> > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 1997 12:56 PM
> > To: HEDIR-L@siu.edu
> > Subject: Additional Education
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone out there would have any recommendations for
> > a
> > rookie health educator who has been in the field for about four years
> > now
> > and is thinking about going back to school. I am a native of, and am
> > currently working in Wisconsin. Do you know anything about masters
> > programs at UW-Madison and is there a particular program you would
> > recommend for someone with an undergraduate degree in Community Health
> > Education? Though I know enough to inquire at that school, I am
> > wondering
> > if anyone has seen a trend as far as the job outlook for people with
> > Masters degrees in any particular area. I really enjoy teaching and
> > presenting and feel that's where my strengths lie. Also, I have a
> > particular interest in the effects of society and societal pressures
> > on
> > health and wellness of people. Would appreciate wisdom anyone would
> > like
> > to share.
> >
> >
> >
> > Wendy
> >
> > NET: wmardak@lhl.gundluth.org
> >
>
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#1178
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 17:14:34 -0800
From: Mark Fulop
Subject: Re: reply to additional education[2]
> Being in a school of public health's health education department provided
> me a balance of the professional, practical, community-orientation skills
> with research skills, which might not be available in a 'professional
> program'. I have found both sets of skills immensely valuable in the
> real-life world of public health.
>Amy Belote, MHS, CHES
Amy & others
Two points.
1) If you were to apply for a job at the San Diego County Health Department
(a major health education employer in the area) you would not qualify for a
Health Educator position because you do not have an MPH. No working around
that despite your experience.
2) In a limited 30-40 hour MPH program, there is not the room to master both
skill-sets well (despite what Schools of Public Health tout). That's okay and
one is not better than the other. Here in So.Cal. I have interviewed a large
number of folks from a bunch of schools of public health down this way and I
will stand by my opinion that I have not generally seen both done well. For
example, when hiring I know that: SDSU is Research and cranks out excellent
researchers but fairly inept community people. Loma Linda University cranks
out awesome practitioners but research-deprived souls. --and at the risk of
offending lots of other people, some of the other programs *in general* tend
to crank out more mediocre graduates.
Dramatic polarizations aside, my point is simple. Prospective students should
understand 1) the score as it relates to the job market: tight opportunities,
modest advancements, glass ceilings; and 2) Know enough about yourself to go
after a focused program in research or professional skills because that is a
fundamental decision to shape what and how you learn at the masters level.
And I will admit that, just like there are 90 year old smokers without cancer,
at the individual level many defy my characture --indeed I have hired some of
them. Amy you sound like one of them.
--
_________________________________________________
Mark Fulop, MPH, CHES fulop@mail.sdsu.edu
Co-Director,
College Health 2000
A Health Promotion Collaborative
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-4701
Phone: 619.594.2869
FAX: 619.594.5613
http://shs.sdsu.edu/ch2000/
Personal WWW page: http://www.znet.com/~hcom/
Projects affiliated with San Diego State University - Student Health Services
http://shs.sdsu.edu
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#1179
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 07:49:26 -0400
From: "Paik, Ron"
Subject: CHES certification
CHES certification offered for the Northeast on September 20.
CHES certification exams will be offered on Saturday 20, from 8 a.m. to
4 p.m. in Bethesda, Maryland outside Washington, D.C. Cost will be $60
for SOPHE members, 75 for non-members. Contact Linda Campanelli at
(301) 754-8801 during work hours for more information.
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#1180
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:31:22 -0400
From: "Paik, Ron"
Subject: FW: CHES certification
----------
From: Paik, Ron
Sent: Friday, August 08, 1997 7:49 AM
To: HEDIR-L@siu.edu
Subject: CHES certification
CHES certification offered for the Northeast on September 20.
CHES certification exams will be offered on Saturday 20, from 8 a.m. to
4 p.m. in Bethesda, Maryland outside Washington, D.C. Cost will be $60
for SOPHE members, 75 for non-members. Contact Linda Campanelli at
(301) 754-8801 during work hours for more information.
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#1181
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:17:43 +0000
From: Steve Gabany
Subject: Research Methods for Health Professionals
A year or so ago, a number of you helped me locate Research Methods
books suitable for undergraduate Community Health/Health Education
students.
I've finished an on-line course in research methods. I suspect many
working professionals are being or will be called upon to conduct
research. Some of them may not have had a recent course. So, I built
a "Practitioners" track into the course, almost a cookbook.
There's no charge, and users don't have to register. Anyone can
access any of the pages.
You may know of someone who could use some help. Here's the address:
http://web.indstate.edu/hlthsfty/hlth341/home.htm
All feedback welcome.
Steve Gabany
Gabany@indstate.edu
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#1182
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:05:33 -0400
From: "Paik, Ron"
Subject: Correction to CHES announcement
I made an error! Please note the following correction:
SOPHE-DC is offering a CHES exam review course, NOT certification exam
on September 20.
This will be offered on Saturday 20, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Bethesda,
Maryland outside Washington, D.C. Cost will be $60 for SOPHE members,
75 for non-members. Contact Linda Campanelli at
(301) 754-8801 during work hours for more information.
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#1183
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 14:36:08 -0500
From: "Susan Wooley (by way of \"Mark J. Kittleson, Ph.D.\"
)"
Subject: Please post position announcement
Please post the following position announcement on the HEDIR. Thank
you.
--------
Project Coordinator: The Society of State Directors of Health, Physical
Education, and Recreation, located in Reston Virginia is soliciting
applications for two positions. We will fill only one, dependent on
funding. For a half time position responsibilities include a) planning
and implementing training and follow-up on using already developed
process evaluation manuals to strengthen coordinated school health
programs, comprehensive school health education, and quality physical
education; and b) working with the American Association for Health
Education (AAHE) to convene a meeting, then draft a document to provide
guidance on qualifications for those who teach HIV prevention education
at various grade levels. For a full time position responsibilities
include those described above plus coordinating a skin cancer prevention
project for school-aged children. The skin cancer project involves
convening a meeting to develop recommended policies and procedures,
working with an evaluator to survey current state policies and
practices, working with a writer to develop instructional materials for
students in grades 3-8, developing trainings for school staff, and
conducting a pilot test. Minimum qualifications: Master's degree in
health education, physical education, or a related discipline;
experience working with schools, with state agencies, managing projects,
planning meetings and trainings, and working with consultants. Salary:
$40,000 - $65,000 for full time or $20,000 - $32,500 for half time,
depending on experience. Application deadline: September 15, 1997.
Preferred start date: October 1, 1997. Position availability and term
is contingent upon grant funding. Send letter of application, resume,
and names and phone numbers of three references to Simon A. McNeely,
Executive Director, SSDHPER, 1900 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191;
703-476-3402; FAX
Susan Wooley
Society of State Directors of Health
Physical Education, and Recreation
1900 Association Drive
Reston, Virginia 20191-1598
Phone: 703-476-3403
FAX: 703-476-9527
Internet: swooley@aahperd.org
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#1184
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:14:33 -0700
From: Carolyn Fisher
Subject: Evaluation Instrument
I am posting this message for a faculty member who does not belong to
HEDIR in the hope that someone has an instrument that can assist her.
Carolyn Fisher
"I am a faculty member at the School of Education, at the University of
the
West Indies, Trinidad, West Indies. I am about to carry out an
evaluation
of a diploma programme that the School has run for Health Visitors
(mid-wives who are being trained to work as community health workers)
over
the past few years. Would you happen to know of any similar evaluations
done or any instruments that might act as a springboard for the work? I
would be grateful for whatever assistance you can give. I can be
reached
at this e-mail address until August 22nd, thereafter, I can be reached
at
george@educ.uwi.tt
Thank you.
June George.
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#1185
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:17:23 -0700
From: Carolyn Fisher
Subject: Evaluation Instrument
Sorry - I forgot to include June George's current e-mail address. She
can be reached at jgeorge@ets.org until Aug. 22nd.
Carolyn Fisher
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#1186
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:57:58 -0400
From: William Cosgrove
Subject: Mis-information about the CHES Exam
There was a message that appeared on the HEDIR on Friday, August 8, 1997
That stated that the CHES exam was to be offered on Saturday, September 20
from 8:00 am to4:00 pm in Bethesda, MD. The cost was to be $60 for SOPHE
members and $75 for non-SOPHE members. This information in its present
context is FALSE.
For the record, the 1997 CHES exam is being offered only on Saturday,
October 18, (Sunday, October 19 for religious exceptions) 1997 at 107 sites
throughout the USA, none which is Bethesda, MD. For further information
about the 1997 CHES exam please visit the NCHEC website at 'www.nchec.org'.
NCHEC is investigating the story behind this mis-information and regrets
any confusion or alarm that it may have caused. As soon as the facts are
ascertained we will report to the HEDIR.
WBCosgrove, Exec Director
NCHEC, Inc.
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#1187
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 17:58:56 -0400
From: Kelli Brown McCormack
Subject: Student Interviews
Thanks to all who have agreed to be interviewed by one of my students in the
Fdns of HED class. I will compile a list for the students and they will
select which HED professional to interview -- so you will be hearing from
them the first part of September. Again thanks!
Kelli McCormack Brown, PhD, CHES
University of South Florida
College of Public Health, MDC 56
Department of Community and Family Health
13201 Bruce B. Downs Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33612-3805
813/974-4867 813/974-5172 (fax)
http://www.med.usf.edu/~kmbrown/kmbrown.htm#edu
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#1188
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 09:18:34 -0400
From: MKrienerAB@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: Wellness Wheel
Several people have provided you with some good resources on finding an
explanation of the Wellness Wheel. I'd like to add to their posts and suggest
you take a look at the University of California-Berkeley Wellness
Encyclopedia. It was in their book that I first saw anything resembling an
actual wheel with spokes.
Just a suggestion.
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#1189
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 09:03:14 +0000
From: Steve Gabany
Subject: community health links & health behavior theories
i'm sad to report that i have found, even with your help, very few
health promotion sites -- one, to be exact -- that even mention the
theory or theories under which they are operating. that one site, and
it's worth visiting, is:
http://www.nau.edu/~eaw/eaw.htm
also, if you're going to have health education, community health,
environmental health, or occupational health/safety management
students using the Web this fall, i've put my few hundred bookmarks
on a web page. while not as organized as i might like it, perhaps
it will be of assistance to you or others. the address is:
http://web.indstate.edu/hlthsfty/ch/bkmrks.htm
Steve Gabany, Ph.D.
Professor, Health & Safety
Gabany@scifac.indstate.edu
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#1190
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:08:00 CDT
From: Holly Stone
Subject: book list
I am currently trying to put together a book list for one of my classes. This
is an introductory wellness class that all freshman at SMU are required to take.
I don't want the books to be to technical or extremely long. I am looking for
books concerning the seven aspects of wellness (Stevens Point) and anything
related to college life and diversity.
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#1191
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:15:00 CDT
From: Holly Stone
Subject: BOOK LIST
I am currently trying to put together a book list for one of my classes. This
is an introductory wellness class that all freshman at SMU are required to take.
I don't want the books to be to technical or extremely long. I am looking for
books concerning the seven aspects of wellness (Stevens Point) and anything
related to college life and diversity.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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#1192
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:05:56 -0400
From: Mary Arnold
Subject: Re: FW: CHES certification
I'm confused..... It was my impression that CHES exams were offered
nationwide on the same day.... My CHES exam is scheduled for October 19th.
The registration materials that I was sent only gave one date that testing
would take place. The last date for late registration was listed as
September 20.
Mary Arnold
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#1193
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:47:00 CDT
From: Holly Stone
Subject: THE SEVEN ASPECTS OF WELLNESS
THE SEVEN ASPECTS OF WELLNESS THAT I REFERRED TO IN MY FIRST
E-MAIL
COME FROM
STEVEN'S POINT. WE USE THEM AS THE STANDARD HERE AT SMU.
THEY ARE AS
FOLLOWS:
SOCIAL WELLNESS, PHYSICAL WELLNESS, EMOTIONAL WELLNESS,
CAREER
WELLNESS,
INTELLECTUAL WELLNESS, ENVIRONMENTAL WELLNESS, AND
SPIRITUAL
WELLNESS.
SORRY ABOUT NOT CLEARING THAT UP EARLIER.
THANKS.
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#1194
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:42:05 -0700
From: "Susan L. Prows"
Subject: SOPHE Annual Meeting Program Available
--IMA.Boundary.053823178
From: prowss@ccmail.orst.edu (Susan L. Prows)
Subject: SOPHE Annual Meeting Program Available
To: HEDIR-L@siu.edu
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Description: cc:Mail note part
The official program for SOPHE's 48th Annual Meeting, November 7-9, is available
for preview. The program includes information on how to register for the
conference, fees, and housing information/reservations. To get a free mailed
copy, please contact:
Elaine Auld, SOPHE Executive Director
1015 Fifteenth St., NW, Suite 410
Washington DC 20005
Phone: 202/408-9804,
Fax: 202/408-9804
Email: sopheauld@aol.com
SOPHE 1997 ANNUAL MEETING
November 7-9, 1997
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Indianapolis, Indiana
"HEALTH EDUCATION AT THE CROSSROADS: APPLYING SOCIAL
ECOLOGY TO
PREVENTION"
Conference Highlights Include:
SOPHE/APHA 5k Run/Walk
Job Bank/Networking opportunities
Over 25 Research & Practice Sessions
New "Management Skills Track"
SOPHE Awards Banquet
Modern & Affordable Convention Center
Pre-Conference Skill-Building Workshops:
1) Social Ecology Approaches to Evaluation
2) Coalition Building
3) Community Planning Intervention
Great keynotes/presenters, including, but not limited to...
Eugenia Eng
Marshall Kreuter
Erma Manoncourt
Gary Gunderson
Bruce Simons-Morton
Nell Gottlieb
Robert Goodman
Michelle Crozier Kegler
Frances Butterfoss
Randy Schwartz
Richard Windsor
Marc Zimmerman
Allen Steckler
Kathleen Roe
Alyson Taub
David Sleet
Cecelia Gaffney
Libby Houze
Noreen Clark
Up to 18 CHES credits available
--IMA.Boundary.053823178--
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#1195
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 14:00:14 -0800
From: Lisa Gilbert
Subject: 3 Hottest Issues Summary of Responses
Thank you HEDIR subscribers! Last week I asked what you thought were the
three hottest issues in health. Much to my surprise, 27 people responded as
follows:
Issue Frequency*
Health care system/Managed care 9
Unhealthy lifestyle choices (poor diet, lack of exercise, etc.) 8
Health effects from: Welfare reform/Poverty/ Illiteracy/Housing 7
Substance use/abuse (drugs, alcohol, food) 5
Changing health behavior/Personal responsibility/Technology 4
Unwanted pregnancy/Repeat teen pregnancy 4
Violence/Abuse 4
Re/Emerging infections (including multi-drug resistant TB) 4
Population/Environment/Pollution 4
Tobacco 3
STD's/HIV/AIDS 3
Consumerism/Health quackery/Alternative health care 3
Elder health care (economic, social, educational, etc.) 3
Hopelessness/ Fear/Isolation 3
Developing healthy communities 2
Quality comprehensive school health 2
Coping skills for changing world/Stress management 2
Assisted suicide 2
Cloning 1
Ethical, legal, social issues of genetic information 1
Breast cancer 1
Cost effectiveness of health promotion 1
Decline in parenting 1
Divorce 1
Chronic diseases 1
Sexual intimacy 1
Return of "service" focus to health professions 1
Bad driving 1
Politicizing health issues 1
*my classifications
Thanks for your participation,
Lisa Gilbert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Idaho
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#1196
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 17:35:00 -0400
From: "Cosgrove, William"
Subject: CHES Exam Clairifcations
FROM: Cosgrove, William
TO:HEDIR-L@siu.edu
SUBJECT: CHES Exam Clairifcations=09
DATE: 08-11-97 17:24 EST
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HEDIRs,
The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
(NCHEC), has
investigated the circumstances surrounding the message on the HEDIR =
last
Friday (8/8/97) concerning the mis-information about the date of the
annual
CHES exam. As stated in our message of Saturday (8/9/97) the CHES exam
is ONLY
offered on Saturday, October 18, 1997 (Sunday, October 19, 1997 for
those with
religious restrictions).=20
The message of mis-information was related to a "refresher" course
sponsored
by the Washington, DC-area chapter of SOPHE.=20
NCHEC wishes to state categorically, that ventures such as 'refresher
courses
or 'study groups', while their purpose is understood by NCHEC, ARE NOT
sponsored or in any way connected to the NCHEC. The ONLY medium of CHES
examination preparation directly sponsored and supported by the NCHEC
are our
publications known as the Study Guide and the Framework. For further
information concerning NCHEC supported CHES exam preparation
publications
visit the NCHEC website at: www.nchec.org or call 1-888-624-3248 and
press 1.=20
=20
NCHEC wishes to express its dismay over any confusion or inconvenience
the
original message from DC-SOPHE may have caused the 1997 CHES exam
candidates.
To preclude any future confusion it is suggested that any individual or
group
who wishes to conduct "study groups" in preparation for the CHES exams
please
coordinate their efforts with the NCHEC office, beforehand. Thank you.
WBCosgrove, Executive Director
NCHEC, Inc.
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#1197
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 00:30:47 -0400
From: Mary Arnold
Subject: Re: CHES Exam Clairifcations
In regard to the study guides that are sponsored and supported by NCHEC, I
have purchased both the Study Guide and the Framework and have found them to
be valuable resources. They are worth the investment to purchase for the
purpose of preparation for the CHES examination as well as to keep for future
reference.
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#1198
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 15:39:36 -0400
From: Patricia Houston
Subject: Attitude is Everything
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this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.
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This story was e-mailed to me by a former student. I thought the rest
of you might enjoy it as well.
Pat
____________________
#1199
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:28:41 -0400
From: Kenneth Zeno
Subject: Model Peer School Mediation Programs
K-12 health Educators-
I am considering the expansion of our school mediation program and would
be interested in learning about models you use for peer school
mediation/dispute resolution at the elementary, middle and high school
levels in your district.
I 'm interested in implementation strategies(e.g. when,how, where does
the mediation process fit into your school schedule ? etc.), staff(e.g.
how do you recruit staff and how are you ensuring staff /administrative,
both building and central office support) and parent involvement
strategies, recruitment, as well as assessment methods. Any support you
can provide would be appreciate. Thanks!
Ken Zeno, Coordinator/Director, Health Education & Human Services
Malden Public Schools
Malden, MA
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#1200
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:14:57 -0400
From: Kenneth Zeno
Subject: Model Peer School Mediation Programs
K-12 Health Educators,
Sorry if this is a repeat. My first mailing was returned to me.
I am considering the expansion of our school mediation program and would
be interested in learning about models you use for your peer school
mediation/dispute resolution programs at the elementary, middle and high
school levels in your district. I'm interested in implementation
strategies(e.g. when how, where does the mediation process fit into your
school schedule? etc.) staff involvement(e.g. how do you recruit staff
and how are you ensuring staff/administrative, both building and central
administration ,involvement ?), parent involvement strategies,
recruitment, as well as assessment methods. Any support you can provide
would be appreciated. Thanks!
Ken Zeno, Coordinator/Director, Health Education & Human Services
Malden Public Schools
Malden, MA 02148
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#1201
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:11:49 -0400
From: Shelagh Smith
Subject: CHES Study Session Mixup -Forwarded
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:08:26 -0400
From: Shelagh Smith
To: cogs101W@cdc.gov
Cc: sopheauld@aol.com,hwrschw@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us,
abooth@prospectassoc.com, rpail@prospectassoc.com
Subject: CHES Study Session Mixup
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#1202
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 09:53:52 -0700
From: Norm Constantine
Subject: Re: Model Peer School Mediation Programs
Kenneth,
You might want to look at "A review of selected school-based conflict
resolution and peer mediation projects" in the Journal of School Health,
1995, 65(10), 426-431.
Norm
--
Norm Constantine, Ph.D.
Director, School and Community Health Research
WestEd, San Francisco
Phone: (510) 284-8118 FAX: (510) 284-8107
E-mail: norm_c@ix.netcom.com -or- nconsta@WestEd.org
WestEd homepage: www.WestEd.org
Kenneth Zeno wrote:
>
> K-12 health Educators-
>
> I am considering the expansion of our school mediation program and would
> be interested in learning about models you use for peer school
> mediation/dispute resolution at the elementary, middle and high school
> levels in your district.
> I 'm interested in implementation strategies(e.g. when,how, where does
> the mediation process fit into your school schedule ? etc.), staff(e.g.
> how do you recruit staff and how are you ensuring staff /administrative,
> both building and central office support) and parent involvement
> strategies, recruitment, as well as assessment methods. Any support you
> can provide would be appreciate. Thanks!
>
> Ken Zeno, Coordinator/Director, Health Education & Human Services
> Malden Public Schools
> Malden, MA
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#1203
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:18:28 -0500
From: Kay Woodiel
Subject: Removal from HEDIR list
I am in the process of changing positions and will need to be removed
from the list temporarily. I will be in touch the later part of August to
resubscribe. Thanks for your time.
Kay Woodiel, Ph.D
HPER 303
Univ. of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
501-575-4360
email kwoodiel@comp.uark.edu
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#1204
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:42:53 -0400
From: Alyson Taub
Subject: HEA Interacting website (fwd)
Some of you asked for more information about this conference in London,
which I attended in February. Information about the website is below.
-- Alyson Taub (alyson.taub@nyu.edu)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:11:33 +0100
From: Audrey Marshall
Reply-To: "Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Researchers."
To: Multiple recipients of list HEALTH-PROMOTION
Subject: HEA Interacting website
%UNIPLEX
%TO HEALTH-PROMOTION@sokrates.mip.ki.se
%CC Janice Botterill
%FROM audreym
%SYSTEM UNIPLEX
%SUBJECT HEA Interacting website
%VERIFY y
%REGISTERED y
%DATE 31/07/97 17:11
%REFERENCE 143820
>From : janiceb
To : Audrey Marshall
Subject : sokrates/mailing list
Date : 31/07/97 14:01
NEW 'VIRTUAL CONFERENCE' WEBSITE - http://www.interact.hea.liv.ac.uk
The Health Education Authority has recently launched a website in response
to feedback from an international seminar it hosted earlier this year
called 'Multimedia - Interacting for Health?'. Delegates at the seminar
suggested further discussion and wider dissemination of the themes and
issues arising at the seminar might be useful for colleagues who were
unable to attend the event itself.
In order to achieve this, the website has two main areas:
- an overview of the seminar itself including audio clips of presentations,
photographs of presenters and summaries of the research reports (including
references) which informed the event
- a 'virtual conference' area where visitors are invited to comment,
discuss and develop themes around multimedia and health. We have set up
initial themes which include: multimedia and communities, motivating
learners with multimedia, media psychology and interactivity. Please feel
free to contribute to these themes or suggest additional areas of
discussion.
We are hoping that visitors who take the time to access the site will also
contribute to the virtual conference, creating a lively and interesting
discussion around multimedia and its potential. The site will be available
until the end of 1997
If you have any comments or feedback on the site itself, please feel free
to contact me.
Janice Botterill
Project Officer, Multimedia Unit
Health Education Authority
Tel: 0171 413 2603
e-mail: janice.botterill@hea.org.uk
%UEND
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#1205
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:16:33 -0500
From: "Michael J. Cuomo, MPH"
Subject: College HE Resource Manuals
Greetings:
As most of you know, Kim Nolte - the developer of the College Health
Resource Manual - is no longer a Health Educator here at Tulane. She has
moved on to greener ($$) pastures (in more ways than one). However, before
she departed she had zillions of the College HE Resource Manuals printed
and asked me to try and get them to the masses (you).
So........, they're available now. If you would like to purchase one of
these Manuals - filled with 42 pages of practical information (e.g.,
getting started: types of programs that go over well with college students,
who to contact for large campus events; how to contact local community
organizations, national organizations - including names, addresses, phone
numbers e-mail and web addresses; hotlines; books; workbooks; journals,
newsletters; slides, videos; catalogues for HE materials; cyberspace -
list servers, various college health web pages; condom and lubricant
manufactures; paraphernalia & other stuff; freebies; and professional
associations.) Whew!
NO college health professional should be without this Manual. If you want
one, send a check or money order for $8.00 U.S. (each) to:
Tulane University Student Health Center.
No Purchase Orders will be accepted. All shipping and handling is
covered. If you need an order form, no problem, I can fax or mail you one.
You will also receive a receipt with your order (so you can get
reimbursed). If you have questions, please feel free to call me at the
number below.
Thank you and good luck in the coming school year. It's just around the
corner.
MJC
*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
Michael J. Cuomo, MPH, CHES, NCAC-II
Health Educator/Substance Abuse Counselor
Tulane Substance Abuse Clinic
Student Health Center (Uptown) - Building 92
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-5698
PH: (504) 862-8120, ext. 236
FAX: (504) 865-5083
E-MAIL: mcuomo@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
http://www.tulane.edu/~health/test.html
*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*
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#1206
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:31:00 -0700
From: Margo Harris
Subject: Radiation Resources and Request for Help
I'm currently working on a contract with the Hanford Health Information
Network (HHIN). Hanford, WA is the site of a former nuclear weapons
production site. Both accidental, operational and planned releases of
radioactive materials occurred at Hanford for decades. Those that lived
downwind from Hanford or who used the Columbia River downstream from
Hanford received doses of radiation. That population is estimated to be
approximately 2 million people, who are often called "downwinders.".
HHIN was established by an Act of Congress in 1991, and project activities
have focused on the states of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. The project
now wants to broaden its reach and draw attention to the resources
available from the network to interested health care providers nationwide.
The Network has remarkable resources available, plus the population
affected is mobile and has moved outside the three state area.
I promoted health educators as remarkable folks to identify quality health
information and also experts at information dissemination. HHIN would like
to promote the availability of a high quality monograph which offers CME
(which is often also accepted for nursing credit if it applies to the
nurse's specialty), patient education materials, plus an archives offering
insight in to hundreds of affected patients. Please visit the HHIN website
at: http://www.doh.wa.gov/hanford/
HHIN would like to reach health care providers, and they have a broad
definition of the word provider. They have particular interest in Native
American providers, since a number of Indian reservations are located in
the "downwind" area. I welcome any suggestions about print and electronic
placements for this information, to assist in broadbased national
dissemination. This issue is often of interest to the
environmental/occupational health provider community, but it certainly
extends to other providers as well. Naturopaths have shown a special
interest in this health issue. A recent NCI report has increased interest
iand attention on the effects of the radioactive material, Iodine-131 or
I-131. This topic is well covered in Hanford materials. Thanks for any
ideas you have to share as you enjoy the remaining days of this fabulous
summer. Margo
Margo Harris
Harris Training & Consulting Services, Inc.
Email: htcs@halcyon.com
Internet: http://www.htcs.com
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#1207
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 16:43:08 -0400
From: Shelagh Smith
Subject: NCA SOPHE CHES Exam Review Flyer -Forwarded
Received: by imc.nih.gov with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49)
id ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:57:34 -0400
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:49:51 -0400
From: "Booth, Andrea"
To: SSmith@ngmsmtp.samhsa.gov
Subject: NCA SOPHE CHES Exam Review Flyer
Shelagh, Here is the text for the NCA SOPHE CHES Exam Review flyer.
The flyer will be photocopied onto NCA SOPHE letterhead with directions
provided on the back side of the flyer. Please let me know if you have
any questions. Andrea
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------
WHAT: Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES)
Exam Review Workshop
DATE: Saturday, September 20, 1997, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30
p.m.
LOCATION: Second Floor, Multipurpose Room of the
Bethesda-Chevy Chase
(B-CC) Services Center, 4805 Edgemore
Lane, Bethesda, MD
DESCRIPTION: This one day CHES review course will prepare exam takers
for the October 1997 CHES exam. Instructors will address the seven
areas of responsibility and related competencies based upon the
standards for CHES. Tips from former CHES exam takers will also be
provided.
COST: NCA/SOPHE Member:
$60.00
Non-NCA/SOPHE Member:
$75.00 *
Full-Time Student (Proof of full-time status
necessary) $40.00
* For information about membership,
contact Sanjay Koyani
(h) 301-897-5484, (w) 301-496-6792.
DIRECTIONS: The B-CC Services Center is located in downtown Bethesda
near the Bethesda Metro Station. See the reverse side of this flyer for
directions.
QUESTIONS: Call Andrea Booth (w) 301-468-6555, (h)
301-530-2732.
___________________________________________________________________
_____
______
REGISTRATION: To register, please return this form to Rosemary
Janiszewski, 2632A Woodley Pl, NW, Washington, DC 20008.
Name:
____________________________________________________________
Phone: (____) _____-__________
Mailing Address:
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Are you currently an NCA/SOPHE member? Yes ______ No ______
My check for $ ___________ is enclosed, made out to NCA/SOPHE.
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#1208
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:59:25 -0600
From: Lisa Reisberg
Subject: 1998 National Media Education Conference
ANNOUNCING:
NATIONAL MEDIA EDUCATION CONFERENCE
(Formerly the National Media Literacy Conference)
June 28-July 1, 1998
Colorado Springs, Colorado
"A Paradigm for Public Health"
The health and well-being of our children is dramatically influenced by
images and messages conveyed by the media. Professionals and parents have
an enormous stake in ensuring that the media's influence on our nation's
youth be positive. This can be accomplished through media education, which
includes development of critical thinking and viewing skills, and offering
creative alternatives to media consumption. If our nation is to reach its
goal of having a healthier, more productive society in the next millennium,
we must move media education into schools, homes and communities.
SPECIAL INTEREST TRACKS
1. Prevention and Public Health: Tobacco, Alcohol, Illicit Drugs;
Violence; Sexual Behavior; Nutritional Issues; Self-concept and Identity;
and Safety
2. Classroom and Non-school Learning: New Technologies, Methods and Activities
3. Families: Strategies for Parents and Children
4. News, Media and Democracy: Citizenship Skills for an Information Age
5. Creative Community: The Role of Writers, Producers, Directors and
Executives in Media Industries
6. Diversity: Representation of Gender, Racism, Sexism, Ageism in the Media
7. Neighborhoods: The Role of Religious and Community Leaders
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Members of the public health, medical, and prevention communities
Classroom teachers K-12 and other educators
Parent and child media advocates
Religious and community leaders
Academic researchers and leaders
Journalists and media professionals
Organized and Hosted by the PARTNERSHIP FOR MEDIA EDUCATION, a
collaboration of:
American Academy of Pediatrics
Center for Media Literacy
Media Literacy Project at Clark University
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention/SAMHSA
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ATTENDING OR PRESENTING,
CONTACT:
Conference Office
2121 S. Oneida Street, Suite 325
Denver, CO 80224-2552
Ph: 303 756-8380 Fax: 303 759-8861
E-mail: NMEC98@aol.com
Web Site: www.ConferenceOffice.com/NMEC
MARK YOUR CALENDAR AND PLAN TO ATTEND!
===========================================================
========
Lisa Reisberg, Director
Division of Public Education
American Academy of Pediatrics
141 Northwest Point Blvd.
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Phone: 847/981-7873
FAX: 847/228-7320
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#1209
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 09:16:48 -0500
From: Jennifer Rae Yunker
Subject: List Serve
To: the "Keeper of the List"
My name is Jennifer Yunker, and I would like to be included on
your HEDIR list serve. Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Yunker
------------------------------
#1210
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 09:14:35 -0700
From: Isabel Burk
Subject: new resource
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism just (June, 1997)
published their latest, "Ninth Special Report to the U.S. Congress on Alcohol and
Health." It's FREE from the NIAAA.
The report is a condensed encyclopedia of knowledge and issues reelated to
alcohol and health. chapters include: epidemiology of alcohol use and
alcohol-related consequences; genetic, psychological and sociocultural
influences on alcohol use and abuse; actions of alcohol on the brain; effects of
alcohol on health and body systems; effects on fetal development; effects on
behavior and safety; economic aspects of alcohol use; and others.
400+ pages of important, useful information.
Order the free publication from the
NIAAA Publications Distribution Center
PO Box 10686
Rockville, MD 20849-0686
--
Isabel Burk, M.S., CHES
Director, The Health Network
(914) 638-3569 Fax: (914) 638-1928
iburk@mail.idt.net
------------------------------
#1211
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 11:51:41 -0600
From: Bart
Subject: Post doc fellowships
Does anyone know of any post doctoral fellowships in the area of health
education/health behavior?
Bart Hammig
Univ. of Kansas doctoral candidate
bhammig@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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#1212
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 14:02:53 -0700
From: Pam Frasier
Subject: Coalition By-laws, Etc.
I am working with a newly formed coalition to develop a community response to
intimate partner violence. We are interested in locating by-laws, etc. for
the coalition's operation. For example, how are chairs of committees chosen,
term of office, etc. How does the coalition make decisions? Must there be a
quorum, consensus, etc. If you are a member of a coalition or can offer any
resources to help us locate info, please let me know! We are interested in
knowing how other coalitions operate.
====================================
Pamela York Frasier, PhD
Department of Family Medicine
Campus Box# 7595
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7595
Phone:919 966-4048
Fax: 919 966-6125
Fax: 919 966-6125
email: pfrasier@med.unc.edu
------------------------------
#1213
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 12:47:09 -0700
From: "VanDusen, Heather E."
Subject: Good Books for Health Educators?
Hello All,
I'm trying to develop a "Health Educator's bookshelf". What books would
you recommend to someone getting started in health education? What books
should be on the bookshelf of everyone involved in health education/
health promotion?
If you recommend a book- How can I get a copy?
Thanks!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There are many things in life that will catch your eye,
but only a few will catch your heart
...pursue those.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Heather VanDusen, Health Educator
WA State Department of Health
Office of Health Promotion
(360) 664-0633
hev0303@hub.doh.wa.gov
MTWTH
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#1214
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:56:47 -0400
From: Sarah Knebel
Subject: INTERNS-Advise please
Anyone who currently recruits, "hires", and advises interns please help!
Myself and an Occupational Health Nurse are managing a new health promotion
project for a large company in Wisconsin. We recently received permission to
"hire" an intern. However, before going forth with this I would like to know
a few things:
1) Is there a pay requirement for interns? And if so, what is the minimum
and the maximum?
2) What are the current college guidelines, in general, for undergraduate
and graduate health education programs? This internship would specifically
provide experience in worksite health.
3) If the intern does not live in the area, do we have to provide housing?
Or is it suffice to provide a rental guide?
4) Have you advertised over HEDIR or in NWA's job bulletin? And if so, were
you bombarded with applications (I don't want to be overwhelmed, there are
only 2 of us!)? And if not, what other suggestions do you have?
5) Is it too late to begin advertising for a Spring intern? (I have enough
work for a full time intern but depending on what the company can offer for
pay, I may consider part-time).
Thanks in advance for your help!
Sarah M. Knebel, MPH
Project Manager
Pro-Fitness at Wisconsin Electric
Sarah.Knebel@wemail.wisenergy.com
------------------------------
#1215
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:55:14 -0700
From: Isabel Burk
Subject: resource
This is from the JoinTogether website, http://www.jointogether.org
CSPI Action Guide Helps College Communities Fight Practices That
Encourage Heavy Drinking
Center for Science in the Public Interest
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20009-5728.
Contact:
Bill Bryant at (202) 332-9110 ext. 370
Debra Erenberg at (202) 332-9110 ext. 338
George Hacker at (202) 332-9110 ext. 343
Last Call for High-Risk Bar Promotions That Target College Students
"Ladies drink free." "Nickel pitchers 'til ten o'clock." "Bladder
Bust." Those are some of
the college newspaper come-ons that lure students to neighborhood bars
and provide
incentives and encouragement for heavy and abusive drinking. According
to a recent
survey, such advertising in many college newspapers has increased by
more than half
over the past decade, stymying college and community efforts to reduce
binge drinking.
Now those communities have a how-to guide on fighting back. Last Call
for High-Risk
Bar Promotions That Target College Students: A Community Action Guide,
published by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest
(CSPI), gives a
practical step-by-step battle plan.
"This guide," said George Hacker, director of CSPI's Alcohol Policies
Project, "is
designed to help college administrators, community activists, law
enforcement and local
government officials reduce the incidence of late-night noise,
vandalism, drunken brawls,
assaults, property damage and drinking and driving associated with
heavy drinking."
Tom Colthurst, Associate Director of the Higher Education Center for
Alcohol and Other
Drug Prevention said, "CSPI has produced a valuable reference for those
concerned with
college student health and safety. Prevention coalitions, both campus
and
community-based, will find this new publication illuminating and
change-oriented."
Last Call provides a broad range of strategies to help community
leaders confront
irresponsible bar promotions and create safer, healthier communities.
It encourages
advocates to choose the methods that best fit their unique situations.
Some of the options
described in the guide include inviting bar owners to join a
responsible hospitality council,
working for legislation that prohibits drink specials, and calling for
enhanced enforcement
of laws against serving intoxicated and underage patrons.
The guide's blueprint for aggressively engaging the alcohol industry
"is provocative,
realistic, and likely to produce results," said Robert Chapman, Alcohol
and Other Drug
Program Coordinator at LaSalle University (Philadelphia, PA).
A CSPI survey of 75 college newspapers, described in Last Call, found
that advertising
for local bars has increased by more than half over the past decade.
The survey found
that one-third of the bar ads promote high-risk heavy drinking, with
pitches such as:
penny and nickel drink nights;
all-you-can-drink specials;
ladies' nights; and
"crawls" with progressive specials at several different bars.
"When a bar distributes fliers for a Wednesday-night `Bladder Buster'
(where drinks stay
cheap until someone goes to the bathroom) under the doors in a
first-year residence hall,
it's an invitation to get drunk," said Last Call co-author Debra
Erenberg of CSPI's
Alcohol Policies Project.
"Such widespread emphasis on heavy drinking is a perversion of the
college experience,
which should be about learning and personal growth. The strategies
described in Last
Call can help foster a campus environment where students focus on
learning, rather than
drinking."
Preparation of Last Call was assisted by grants from The Robert Wood
Johnson
Foundation of Princeton, NJ, and the S.H. Cowell Foundation of San
Francisco, CA.
CSPI will provide the guide to hundreds of college campuses and
organizations
concerned about alcohol problems. Individual copies of the 61-page
guide are available
from CSPI for $10 by writing to CSPI-Alcohol Policies, 1875 Connecticut
Avenue,
NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20009-5728. Or write to
alcproject@cspinet.org.
-- END --
CSPI is a nonprofit health-advocacy organization that focuses on
alcoholic-beverage
problems, nutrition, and food safety. It is based in Washington, D.C.,
and is supported
largely by more than one million subscribers to its Nutrition Action
Healthletter and
foundation grants. It does not accept industry or government funding.
CSPI led efforts to
win passage of the law requiring warning labels on alcoholic beverages
and has publicized
the nutritional content of many popular restaurant foods. Find CSPI on
the Internet
www.cspinet.org.
Date: 07/28/1997
Distributed by Join Together Online.
Distributed by Join Together
http://www.jointogether.org
--
Isabel Burk, M.S., CHES
Director, The Health Network
(914) 638-3569 Fax: (914) 638-1928
iburk@mail.idt.net
------------------------------
#1216
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 09:38:13 +0600
From: Terri March
Subject: Re: Coalition By-laws, Etc.
Pam -
I am currently in the process of compiling materials on building and
sustaining coalitions and consequently have lots of good material.
AHEC Community Partners has a very nice, basic, user friendly workbook
called From the Ground Up! A Workbook on Coalition Building &
Community Development. They also have a publication that includes
samples of bylaws, etc...from MA. Their address is: 24 South Prospect St.,
Amherst, MA 01002, (413) 253-4283. The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
has several publications that might be helpful, including the Collaboration
Handbook. Their address is: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Publishing Center,
919 Lafond Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104.
Online, the Ohio Center for Action on Coalition Development has some great
fact sheets. The URL is:
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/lines/kids.html#COALI
Another good website is the Community toolbox @ http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/
You also may want to get in touch, if you haven't already, with the resources
across the street in the Health Behavior/Health Education program in the
School of
Public Health. In particular, Genie Eng may be able to help you with some
resources.
At 02:02 PM 8/14/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I am working with a newly formed coalition to develop a community response to
>intimate partner violence. We are interested in locating by-laws, etc. for
>the coalition's operation. For example, how are chairs of committees chosen,
>term of office, etc. How does the coalition make decisions? Must there be a
>quorum, consensus, etc. If you are a member of a coalition or can offer any
>resources to help us locate info, please let me know! We are interested in
>knowing how other coalitions operate.
>
>====================================
>Pamela York Frasier, PhD
>Department of Family Medicine
>Campus Box# 7595
>University of North Carolina
>Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7595
>
>Phone:919 966-4048
>Fax: 919 966-6125
>Fax: 919 966-6125
>email: pfrasier@med.unc.edu
>
Terri Zimmerman March
Institute for Community Health
@ Virginia Tech
(540) 231-2452
------------------------------
#1217
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:05:00 +0600
From: Terri March
Subject: Coaltions
Pam -
I am currently in the process of compiling materials on building and
sustaining coalitions and consequently have lots of good material.
AHEC Community Partners has a very nice, basic, user friendly workbook
called From the Ground Up! A Workbook on Coalition Building &
Community Development. They also have a publication that includes
samples of bylaws, etc...from MA. Their address is: 24 South Prospect St.,
Amherst, MA 01002, (413) 253-4283. The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
has several publications that might be helpful, including the Collaboration
Handbook. Their address is: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Publishing Center,
919 Lafond Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104.
Online, the Ohio Center for Action on Coalition Development has some great
fact sheets. The URL is:
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/lines/kids.html#COALI
Another good website is the Community toolbox @ http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/
You also may want to get in touch, if you haven't already, with the resources
across the street in the Health Behavior/Health Education program in the
School of
Public Health. In particular, Genie Eng may be able to help you with some
resources.
At 02:02 PM 8/14/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I am working with a newly formed coalition to develop a community response to
>intimate partner violence. We are interested in locating by-laws, etc. for
>the coalition's operation. For example, how are chairs of committees chosen,
>term of office, etc. How does the coalition make decisions? Must there be a
>quorum, consensus, etc. If you are a member of a coalition or can offer any
>resources to help us locate info, please let me know! We are interested in
>knowing how other coalitions operate.
>
>====================================
>Pamela York Frasier, PhD
>Department of Family Medicine
>Campus Box# 7595
>University of North Carolina
>Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7595
>
>Phone:919 966-4048
>Fax: 919 966-6125
>Fax: 919 966-6125
>email: pfrasier@med.unc.ed
------------------------------
#1218
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:17:51 -0800
From: Mark Fulop
Subject: New technologies Literature
Just a heads up for all who are interested in the potential of new
technologies for public health and healthcare. The following reference
is an excellent article.
PS. My understanding is that there is an article that has been
repositioned and the basic content is being printed in three different
professional journals so you might see it somewhere else...
Mark Fulop, MPH, CHES
College Health 2000
--------------------------------------
Electronic Communication With Patients
Evaluation of Distance Medicine Technology
E. Andrew Balas, MD, PhD; Farah Jaffrey, MSc; Gilad J. Kuperman, MD,
PhD; Suzanne Austin Boren, MHA; Gordon
D. Brown, PhD; Francesco Pinciroli, LEE; Joyce A. Mitchell, PhD
Objective.=97To evaluate controlled evidence on the efficacy of distance
medicine technologies in clinical practice and
health care outcome.
Data Sources.=97Systematic electronic database and manual searches
(1966-1996) were conducted to identify clinical trial
reports on distance medicine applications.
Study Selection.=97Three eligibility criteria were applied: prospective,
contemporaneously controlled clinical trial with
random assignment of the intervention; electronic distance technology
application in the intervention group and no similar
intervention in the control group; and measurement of the intervention
effect on process or outcome of care.
Data Extraction.=97Data were abstracted by independent reviewers using a
standardized abstraction form and the quality
of methodology was scored. Distance technology applications were
described in 6 categories: computerized communication,
telephone follow-up and counseling, telephone reminders, interactive
telephone systems, after-hours telephone access, and
telephone screening.
Data Synthesis.=97Of 80 eligible clinical trials, 61 (76%) analyzed
provider-initiated communication with patients and 50
(63%) reported positive outcome, improved performance, or significant
benefits, including studies of computerized
communication (7 of 7), telephone follow-up and counseling (20 of 37),
telephone reminders (14 of 23), interactive
telephone systems (5 of 6), telephone access (3 of 4), and telephone
screening (1 of 3). Significantly improved outcomes
were demonstrated in studies of preventive care, management of
osteoarthritis, cardiac rehabilitation, and diabetes care.
Conclusions.=97Distance medicine technology enables greater continuity of
care by improving access and supporting the
coordination of activities by a clinician. The benefits of distance
technologies in facilitating communication between
clinicians and patients indicate that application of telemedicine should
not be limited to physician-to-physician
communication.
JAMA. 1997;278:152-159
------------------------------
#1219
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:42:28 -0700
From: "Holly Lenz, Ph.D., CHES"
Subject: Re: Position Available
Dear HEDIR Folks:
We have another position opening up
in a very busy and exciting public
health department. Please share this
announcement with your colleagues.
HEALTH EDUCATION SPECIALIST: ($2,546 - $3,095/mo + benefits)
Position with Shasta County's Public Health Department located in
the city of Redding in beautiful Northern California. The
community offers many outdoor recreational activities, good services
and low cost of living. Person will assist in evaluating, developing,
and implementing health education activities for many public health
programs. Minimum of a B.A. in health education, community health, or
health promotion and at least 1 year experience providing health or
community education services is required. CHES certification and
experience with graphics software and graphics production is highly
desirable. Call the 24 hour hotline (916) 225-5078 for an application
and job flyer. Closes 9/19/97. We are an equal opportunity employer.
------------------------------
#1220
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 12:24:16 -0500
From: "Michael J. Cuomo, MPH"
Subject: Health Education Resource Manual Order Form
Greetings:
I should have done this the first time around. Please simply print out
this order form.
Thank you.
MJC
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------
College Health Education Resource Manual
A 42 page Manual with lists of resources for the collge health educator
including books, videos, journals, health education suppliers, national
organizations, professional organizations, hotlines, Internet user
groups and much more! A must for any health educator.
Tulane University
Attn: Michael J. Cuomo, MPH, CHES, NCAC II
Acting Head, Health Education
Student Health Center (Uptown)
Building 92
New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-5698
504-865-5255
504-865-5083 fax
Federal Tax ID #: 72-0423889
Please send me _____ copies of the College health Education Resource
Manual @ $8.00 U.S. per copy. Enclosed is my check to Tulane University.
Please, no purchase orders.
Name ____________________________________
Address __________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
Phone ___________________________________
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------
*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
Michael J. Cuomo, MPH, CHES, NCAC-II
Health Educator/Substance Abuse Counselor
Tulane Substance Abuse Clinic
Student Health Center (Uptown) - Building 92
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-5698
PH: (504) 862-8120, ext. 236
FAX: (504) 865-5083
E-MAIL: mcuomo@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
http://www.tulane.edu/~health/test.html
*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*
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#1221
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 13:03:49 -0500
From: "Mark J. Kittleson, Ph.D."
Subject: new resource
Isabel announced that the following publication is available free of charge.
According to the
NIAAA web page (http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/9-order.htm) there is an
$11.00 fee
which includes shipping and handling
>
>The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism just (June, 1997)
>published their latest, "Ninth Special Report to the U.S. Congress on Alcohol and
>Health." It's FREE from the NIAAA.
>
>The report is a condensed encyclopedia of knowledge and issues reelated to
>alcohol and health. chapters include: epidemiology of alcohol use and
>alcohol-related consequences; genetic, psychological and sociocultural
>influences on alcohol use and abuse; actions of alcohol on the brain; effects of
>alcohol on health and body systems; effects on fetal development; effects on
>behavior and safety; economic aspects of alcohol use; and others.
>400+ pages of important, useful information.
>
>Order the free publication from the
>NIAAA Publications Distribution Center
>PO Box 10686
>Rockville, MD 20849-0686
>--
>Isabel Burk, M.S., CHES
>Director, The Health Network
>(914) 638-3569 Fax: (914) 638-1928
>iburk@mail.idt.net
>__________________________
Mark J. Kittleson, Ph.D.
Owner and Founder of HEDIR
Home Page: http://www.siu.edu/~kittle
HEDIR Home Page: http://www.siu.edu/~kittle/HEDIR/Menu.html
------------------------------
#1222
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 22:25:34 -0700
From: Isabel Burk
Subject: cost of new resource
Mark J. Kittleson, Ph.D. wrote:
>
> Isabel announced that the following publication is available free of charge.
Oops! Mark is right. The cost is $11 all inclusive. (worth every
penny) Apologies to all.
> >
> >The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism just (June, 1997)
> >published their latest, "Ninth Special Report to the U.S. Congress on Alcohol
and
> >Health."
> >Order the publication from the
> >NIAAA Publications Distribution Center
> >PO Box 10686
> >Rockville, MD 20849-0686
--
Isabel Burk, M.S., CHES
Director, The Health Network
(914) 638-3569 Fax: (914) 638-1928
iburk@mail.idt.net
------------------------------
#1223
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 11:16:21 -0700
From: Isabel Burk
Subject: CDC satellite broadcast: HIV prevention update
This is from the CDC's calendar:
Oct. 23
Satellite Broadcast: "HIV Prevention Update on Guidelines for
Prevention Case Management and Partner Notification."
Contact: After July 15, CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse
(1-800-458-5231) or
After July 1, a fact sheet is available
by FAX from 1-888-CDC-FAXX (Document No. 130012)
Isabel
--
Isabel Burk, M.S., CHES
Director, The Health Network
(914) 638-3569 Fax: (914) 638-1928
iburk@mail.idt.net
------------------------------
#1224
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:27:37 -0500
From: "Mark J. Kittleson, Ph.D."
Subject: Moves
I don't know about the rest of you, but it seems that there were quite a few
people who have moved this summer to new places. For example, I'm aware
that Glen Gilbert is now chair at East Carolina U. and that Larry Olson is
the chair at Towson State.
Mike Perko has accepted a job at the University of North Carolina at
Wilmington; SIU has been fortunate in that several of our doctoral
graduates have been placed: Youmasu Siewe is at Morehead State (TN); Ping
Hu is at Florida Atlantic University; Sue Hill is at Western Oregon State
University; Patti Cost is working with the Hawaii State Department of
Health (nice gig, huh?).
In addition, Mary Dinger and Joyce Fetro are now faculty here at SIU.
I think it would be nice to share on the HEDIR anybody that you know has
gotten a new position, or if you have changed jobs, please post it on the
HEDIR...
also, if you have changed, please send me a private e-mail and I'll change
all the information listed on the three directories that you can find on the
HEDIR web page (listed below).
Mark J. Kittleson, Ph.D.
Home Page: www.siu.edu/~kittle HEDIR Home Page:
www.siu.edu/~kittle/HEDIR/Menu.html
Editor:
International Electronic Journal of Health Education:
http://131.230.221.136/iejhe
------------------------------
#1225
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 13:11:15 -0500
From: "Mark J. Kittleson, Ph.D."
Subject: IEJHE
As you may recall, last spring I announced that I was going to initiate the
first electronic journal for health education starting with a January 1,
1998 date. This will be a quarterly journal, with the first journal having a
series of invited guests. The first peer reviewed issue will take place on
April 1, 1998.
The purpose of this memo is to indicate that starting September 1, 1997
manuscripts will be accepted. For more information about author guidelines
please visit the journal's web page at: http://131.230.221.136/iejhe
In addition, for those departments, colleges, universities, or products that
would like to be advertised, please note the advertising rates and policies.
Effective January 1, 1998 the journal will be complete with all articles
(and ads). At that time, in order to view the journal you will need an
account and/or password. One will be able to receive that account and
password via the web page (the software won't be installed until sometime in
December).
Please note that there will be no charge for those accounts and passwords
initially.
If you have any questions about the journal, please feel free to drop me a line.
Mark J. Kittleson, Ph.D.
Home Page: www.siu.edu/~kittle HEDIR Home Page:
www.siu.edu/~kittle/HEDIR/Menu.html
Editor:
International Electronic Journal of Health Education:
http://131.230.221.136/iejhe
------------------------------
#1226
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:42:29 -0700
From: "VanDusen, Heather E."
Subject: List of Good Books
Sorry for the cross post!
I thought I'd share the suggestions I had received for good books for
health educators. Thanks to all who contributed. Asterisks mean the book
was suggested more than once.
More suggestions are always welcome!
& Managing Hospital-Based Patient Education
Barbara Giloth
American Hospital Publishing Inc. 1993
& Patient Education: A Practical Approach
Lorig, K.
St Louis: Mosby- Year Book, 1992
& Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills **
Doak, CC; Doak, LG; and Root, JH
Philadelphia: Lippencott, 1996 (Second Edition)
(University Book Store Medical Division- 206-543-6582)
& Diffusion of Innovations
Everett Rogers
Free Press/ Division of Macmillan
& Health Behavior and Health Education**
Karen Glanz, Frans Marcus Lewis, & Barbara Rimer eds. Jossey-Base
& Introduction to Health Education and Health Promotion
2nd Edition 1995
Simons-Morton, Greene, and Gottlieb
IL:Waveland Press
PO Box 400, Prospect Heights, IL 60070
& The Skilled Facilitator
Roger Schwarz
Jossey Bass
& A Practical Guide for Applied Research
Richard Krueger
Sage Publications
& Focus Groups: Theory and Practice
Stewart & Shamdasani
Sage Publications
& It's Perfectly Normal, Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health
Robie H. Harris
Chinaberry Book Service
& Health Promotion Planning: An Educational and Environmental Approach
Larry Green and Marshall Kreuter
Mayfield Publishing Co
& Evaluation of Health Promotion & Education Programs
Richard Windsor, T. Baranowkski, N. Clark and G.Cutter
Mayfield Publishing Co
& Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach**
Jane Vella
& Train the Trainer
Jane Vella
(U Book Store- also check Jubilee: 1221 Moutrie Court, Raleigh, NC
27615)
& Designing and Conducting Health Su