#191
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 06:59:17 -0600
From: "Mark J. Kittleson, PhD, FAAHB" <kittle@SIU.EDU>
Subject: SMQ Special Reminder (PD AD)
** Award winning program in Wellness Mgt and Gerontology
** offers GA Stipend of $8000+ tuition waiver.
** Contact Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology,
** Ball State University; call 1-888-WELL-BSU
** Web Page: http://www.bsu.edu/wellness (2/1)
Just as a reminder...(btw...it's a very good journal...)
The Social Marketing Quarterly (SMQ) is being advertised via the HEDIR to
promote a special first time subscriber rate. New subscribers can receive
one year (four issues) of the SMQ for $25 (currently $30 per volume) if
subscribing between now and February 15, 2001, and beat an anticipated
price increase. SMQ is peer reviewed, and the only journal devoted
entirely to social marketing, with a heavy emphasis on health behavior and
social change applications. The SMQ features regular contributions from
leading social marketers, public health practitioners and public health
scholars around the world. Among the varied authors and contributors are,
Bill Smith, of the Academy for Educational Development, Kelli McCormack
Brown and Robert McDermott, of the University of South Florida College of
Public Health, Beverly Schwartz of Fleischmann Hilliard, Gerard Hastings of
the Centre for Social Marketing, University of Strathclyde (Scotland), and
many others. A regular feature in the SMQ is "Training Initiatives" to
assist persons new to social marketing in disseminating information and skills.
The SMQ has been published since 1994, is currently circulated to
approximately 400 individuals and institutions throughout the world, and is
co-published by Best Start, Inc. and the University of South Florida
College of Public Health, Department of Community and Family Health.
The SMQ's mission is "to foster a cooperative exploration of ideas and
practices among diverse groups of academicians, practitioners, program
developers, administrators and the general public. The SMQ emphasizes
public health issues as they relate to social marketing, as well as issues
such as the environment, natural resources, wildlife, safety, industry,
medicine and educational problems."
During recent years the SMQ has covered special topics in Prevention
Marketing, Reproductive Health, an annual proceedings issue for the
Innovations in Social Marketing Conference and is the sponsor of the
Andeasen Scholar's Award and Lecture Series each year at the University of
South Florida's Social Marketing in Public Health Conference. Special
issues to be covered during this publishing year include: the use of brand
development in public programs, social marketing outside the United States,
and comparative discussions regarding social marketing and other behavior
change approaches in public health.
The SMQ is a valuable resource for public health practitioners and scholars
who are interested in exploring current themes in behavior change work,
accessing the latest approaches to marketing in public health, and
preparing for emerging competencies for public health practitioners and
program managers.
NOTE: Anybody who purchases the SMQ from this ad will receive a free six
month membership to the International Electronic Journal of Health
Education (or have six months extended to any current
subscriptions). Subscribe to the IEJHE and in the comments section state
"SMQ special"
To subscribe to Social Marketing Quarterly contact:
James H. Lindenberger
Publisher, Social Marketing Quarterly
Best Start, Inc.
4809 E. Busch Blvd. Suite 104
Tampa, Florida 33617
(800) 277-4975
jhl@beststartinc.org
Mark J. Kittleson, Ph.D., FAAHB
Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
Southern Illinois University
Home Page: http://www.kittle.siu.edu
HEDIR: http://www.hedir.org
IEJHE: http://www.iejhe.org
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#192
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:35:10 -0500
From: "Olsen, Larry" <lolsen@TOWSON.EDU>
Subject: Interesting piece of information that deals with diversity and ma ny
other issues
** Award winning program in Wellness Mgt and Gerontology
** offers GA Stipend of $8000+ tuition waiver.
** Contact Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology,
** Ball State University; call 1-888-WELL-BSU
** Web Page: http://www.bsu.edu/wellness (2/1)
Hello everyone:
Many of you may have seen this in the past, but, in light of the discussion
of late, I thought it might be good for each of us to again read, and
remember.
Have a great weekend.
Larry
A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole
which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and
while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water
at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master's house, the
cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer
delivering only one and a half pots full of water in his master's house. Of
course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect to the end
for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own
imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what
it had been made to do.
After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the
water bearer one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, and I want to
apologize to you."
Why?" asked the bearer. "What are you ashamed of?"
"I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver only half my load
because this crack in my side causes water to
leak out all the way back to your master's house. Because of my flaws, you
have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your
efforts," the pot said.
The water bearer felt sorry for the old cracked pot, and in his compassion
he said, "As we return to the master's house, I want you to notice the
beautiful flowers along the path."
Indeed, as they went up the hill, the old cracked pot took notice of the sun
warming the beautiful wild flowers on
the side of the path, and this cheered it some. But at the end of the trail,
it still felt bad because it had leaked out half its load, and so again it
apologized to the bearer for its failure.
The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were
flowers only on your side of your path, but not on the other pot's side?
That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I took advantage of
it. I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we
walk back
from the stream, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick
these beautiful flowers to decorate my master's table. Without you being
just the way you are, he would not have this beauty to grace this house."
Moral: Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots. But
it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very
interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for
what they are, and look for the good in them. There is a lot of good out
there.
There is a lot of good in you! Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not
be bent out of shape. Remember to appreciate all the different people in
your life! If it hadn't been for the cracked pots along my path, my life
would have been pretty boring and uninteresting............
Thank you - to all my crackpot friends and family !!!
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#193
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:44:14 -0500
From: Becky Smith <BSmith@AAHPERD.ORG>
Subject: FW: Notice of Resource on Children's Health
** Award winning program in Wellness Mgt and Gerontology
** offers GA Stipend of $8000+ tuition waiver.
** Contact Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology,
** Ball State University; call 1-888-WELL-BSU
** Web Page: http://www.bsu.edu/wellness (2/1)
> AAHE was asked to post the announcement below - please respond directly to
> the appropriate office.
>
>
> Copies of America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2000
> are
> still available. The report, produced by the Federal Interagency Forum on
> Child and Family Statistics, is an annual summary of indicators covering
> children's health, economic security, behavior and social environment, and
> education. For a free copy of the report please email the National
> Maternal and Child Health Clearinghouse [nmchc@cirsol.com] or download
> from
> the World Wide Web: http://childstats.gov
>
>
>
>
> Becky J. Smith, Ph.D, CHES, CAE
> Executive Director
> American Association for Health Education
> 1900 Association Dr.
> Reston, VA 20191
> 703-476-3437
> Fax: 703-476-6638
> email: bsmith@aahperd.org
> http://www.aahperd.org/aahe
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#194
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:02:35 -0500
From: Penny Ankrom <pankrom@KENT.EDU>
Subject: ADDRESSES
** Award winning program in Wellness Mgt and Gerontology
** offers GA Stipend of $8000+ tuition waiver.
** Contact Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology,
** Ball State University; call 1-888-WELL-BSU
** Web Page: http://www.bsu.edu/wellness (2/1)
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#195
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:35:09 -0700
From: Michael OLPIN <MOLPIN@WEBER.EDU>
Subject: Stress management survey
** Award winning program in Wellness Mgt and Gerontology
** offers GA Stipend of $8000+ tuition waiver.
** Contact Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology,
** Ball State University; call 1-888-WELL-BSU
** Web Page: http://www.bsu.edu/wellness (2/1)
This letter is primarily for all of you HEDIR friends who are working at colleges and
universities.
I ran this by Mark Kittleson and he gave me the approval to use the HEDIR Listserv to ask
for your assistance on a large survey I am doing.
A few years ago I did a survey for my dissertation. It was on stress management and
specifically, stress levels of college students, what causes them to feel stress, what
they are doing to cope or deal with their stress and the degree to which those coping
techniques work to reduce stress.
I have managed to put this survey, with a few tiny modifications, into an online format
where students (or anyone for that matter) anywhere in the world can immediately take the
survey and with our system, here at WSU, gather the data and do some excellent analysis of
it on a much larger scale.
The questions on the survey address a college student population - undergraduates.
It can be accessed by going first to the following web page:
http://www.weber.edu/hp/faculty/molpin/stressurvey.htm
After students go to this first page, they click the link and they are immediately moved
into the survey. It is set up so there is no way for me to know who is taking the survey.
They would answer the demographics at the end, but anonymity is preserved.
It has 84 questions and takes no more than 15 minutes to complete.
This survey has been approved by the human subjects committees at both SIU and WSU.
If you would be interested in helping me by informing your students of the survey and
directing them to the website I would be most grateful.
If you have any questions or concerns or would like more information, please feel free to
send e-mail or call me by phone.
Thank you very much for your time and help.
Michael Olpin
Michael Olpin PhD
Weber State University
Dept of Health Promotion & Human Performance
(801) 626-6485
http://www.weber.edu/hp/faculty/molpin/home.html
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