#1344
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:47:36 -0600
From: "Mark J. Kittleson, PhD, FAAHB" <kittle@SIU.EDU>
Subject: Delta Affiliate of SOPHE
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Been asked to pass this along)
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Greetings:
Happy holidays!
Please visit the attachment to approve the slate of officers for the Delta
Affiliate of SOPHE.
Would you be willing to meet in January 2003? If so, please rate the
following dates/times and return your ratings, by Friday, December 20,
2002, or as soon as you read this, to me (wcissell@twu.edu; 940-898-2861)
or Dr. Shahbazi (mohammad.shahbazi@jsums.edu; 601-368-2043). Please rate
the dates/times according to the scale of 5 - highly desirable; 4 -
desirable; 3 - acceptable; 2 - tolerable; 1 - forget it.
_____ Friday, January 10, 2003, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
_____ Friday, January 10, 2003, 12:00 Noon - 4:00 PM
_____ Friday, January 10, 2003, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
_____ Friday, January 17, 2003, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
_____ Friday, January 17, 2003, 12:00 Noon - 4:00 PM
_____ Friday, January 17, 2003, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
_____ Friday, January 24, 2003, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
_____ Friday, January 24, 2003, 12:00 Noon - 4:00 PM
_____ Friday, January 24, 2003, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
_____ Friday, January 31, 2003, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
_____ Friday, January 31, 2003, 12:00 Noon - 4:00 PM
_____ Friday, January 31, 2003, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
_____ Other (Please specify)
______________________________________________________
Please rate the following prospective agena items according to the scale of
5 - highly desirable; 4 - desirable; 3 - acceptable; 2 - tolerable; or 1 -
don't you dare.
_____ Confirmation of the slate of officers
_____ Review of the General Membership Meeting in Biloxi (Sept.)
_____ Review of the SOPHE Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (Nov.)
_____ Review of the status of the Delta Affiliate of SOPHE
_____ Membership report
_____ Treasury report
_____ Update on the constitution and by-laws
_____ Planning a 2003 meeting of the Delta Affiliate of SOPHE in Alabama
_____ Planning a 2003 meeting of the Delta Affiliate of SOPHE in Louisiana
_____ Planning the next meeting of the Delta Affiliate of SOPHE in Mississippi
_____ Others (Please specify) ______________________________________
________________________________________________________________
Mark J. Kittleson, PhD, FAAHB
Professor, Health Education
Graduate Director, Health Education & Recreation
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#1345
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:40:29 -0600
From: Michael Pejsach <healthedman@COX.NET>
Subject: Passing along the Santa Claus Message
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DATE: A Few Days Before I make my BIG trip
TO: All Education for Health Professionals
FROM: Santa Claus
RE: Something Special For YOU!
It has come to my attention that you have all been good this year. You love
your work. For the most part, you like educating for health. I know...it's
fun.
You've worked hard, even without the resources you need to help expand your
fine, AND EFFECTIVE, programs. The support for your hard work is limited in
some cases. So, along with CEEH, I am sending you these gifts:
page business card when you join (it's FREE!) the Health Promotion and
Wellness Providers International Web Page Network. You can check out who is
in your state or locality and, perhaps, create synergy! Don't forget to
fill in ALL of the information.
be a 501 ( c) 3 (non-profit) organization designed to merge education for
health professionals into a comprehensive/coordinated/consolidated effort
for enhancing professional status and practice (I was told to write that).
It's also FREE!
3. Help make Health Education MORE PUBLIC. Go to
the Health Education Hall of Fame. You can also make nominations. There is
no charge and this can go a long way in promoting the profession!
4. For some useful FREE quotes go to
5. For some holiday merriment, go to
Remember, you don't have to be a member, or pay a fee for any of the FREE
services above. This is my gift to you!
See you in a few days.
With love and admiration, I am
Sincerely,
Santa
PS: Please, if you have a minute, clean those chimneys. Thanks.
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** Come on now...do we REALLY need
** more than one organization
** representing Health Educators?
** Well, then, which one? Find out:
**
**
** Review/Learn about PRECEDE/PROCEED @
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#1346
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:23:32 -0500
From: Michaela Conley <michaela@HPCAREER.NET>
Subject: Paid Ad: Asst./ Assoc. Professors, Cincinnati OH
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University of Cincinnati Health Promotion and Education Program Positions:
One Assistant Professor and one Assistant or Associate Professor of Health
Education. Positions available September 1, 2003.
Qualifications: Applicants must have an earned doctorate in Health
Promotion, Health Education or Public Health Education by August, 2002 and
must be CHES certified or CHES eligible. Applicants must demonstrate the
potential to obtain grants and conduct scholarly research. Preference will
be given to candidates with prior publication, externally funded projects
and experience supervising graduate theses.
Responsibilities: Teaching responsibilities include both undergraduate and
graduate health education courses such as: Program Planning, Program
Implementation, Program Evaluation, Stress Management, Environmental
Health, Fitness and Health, Health Care Delivery, Aging, and other content
courses as needed in accord with ability and program needs. Additional
responsibilities include advising graduate students; career advising for
undergraduate students; conducting scholarly research; grant writing;
supervising graduate committees; serving on program, divisional, college,
and university committees, and other duties as assigned.
Salary: Competitive
Locale: Cincinnati is one of the most progressive cities in the Midwest.
Located on the Ohio River at the juncture of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana,
Cincinnati offers a wide variety of cultural, recreational and social
events including ballet, symphony, professional theater, professional
sports, and an outstanding zoo and aquarium.
Description: The University of Cincinnati is part of the State University
system with approximately 36,000 students in attendance. The Health
Promotion and Education Program is located within the Division of Human
Services in the College of Education. The 150 undergraduate students can
choose to focus their program on one of three areas: community health,
exercise and fitness or athletic training. The 60 masters degree students
have the option of emphasizing either community health promotion or health
& exercise management.
Application Process: Send a letter of application, professional vita, all
official transcripts and three letters of recommendation to: Amy L.
Bernard, Ph.D., CHES Associate Professor and Program Coordinator Health
Promotion and Education Program University of Cincinnati PO Box 210002
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0002
Applications will be received until the positions are filled. The review of
applications with begin on January 24th, 2003
The University of Cincinnati is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
Employer. Women, Minorities, Disabled Persons, and Vietnam Era and Disabled
Veterans are encouraged to apply.
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#1347
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:04:12 -0600
From: "Mark J. Kittleson, PhD, FAAHB" <kittle@SIU.EDU>
Subject: final comments on training of health educators
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A couple more have trickled in....
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I received my MPH in Health Ed from Chapel Hill some 16 years ago and
have served in a variety of state and local settings since that time.
I think that the most useful class focused on program planning (using a
variety of different community development models). I think the most
useful skill that I learned (and which was emphasized in many classes
and an internship) was the ability to see problems (and ultimately
solutions) from a variety of perspectives. It seems that many of my
colleagues are unable or unwilling to try to view issues from the other
parties' perspectives. The ability to find common ground and to work
with diverse groups and acknowledge and even capitalize on our
differences is far too rare.
In addition, either in high school, college, or graduate school (or
some combination thereof) I picked up some rational thinking skilles -
the ability to dissect a problem/issue into manageable pieces and design
ways to deal with that issue that can be reassembled into a cohesive
plan.
The class I wish I had payed more attention in is biostatistics.
Statistics are everywhere. Good and useful statistics are not.
I would have to agree with some of the other people commenting that
more training in marketing, design and grant writing would have been
helpful. A non-credit course on operating office equipment: unsticking
the copier, peeling labels off printer roller bars and changing the
light bulbs in overheads would have been most helpful. I seems that
health educators are assumed to have all of the above office maintenance
skills - so some training might be in order!
Other skills that make life in public health easier are good
interpersonal and communication skills and political savy. (Every
office, every organization, no matter how small, has politics.) I don't
know how one teaches those besides letting people bumble through and
learn for themselves, but I sure wish I had understood those better when
I got out of school.
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Hello Mark, just a quick response to your question. I got my MPH in 1979
(very long ago) but the most important thing i learned from the program was
that health education is a process (i.e. we should worry more about the
process than what we perceive to be the end goal... because we never really
reach a perfect state of health... we are always striving to improve our
health status or help others improve theirs).
What i feel my program lacked (and it could be just the time period) is that
it didn't focus much on the issue of poverty as the cause of much of our
poor health status. We were taught that health depended on our health habits
(i.e. we could choose to be as healthy as we wanted or not). But the more i
read about economic inequity, i am beginning to think that poverty and
income inequality play a big role in health outcomes in our society. Health
habits are good to focus on if you are not in poverty, but if you are, then
poverty needs to be addressed before you can deal with the other behavioral
issues around health.
I also think that perhaps my program focused too much on individual
behavioral issues and not enough on changing populations (i.e. social
marketing, etc -- this again, might be because of the time period in which i
went through the MPH program).
Hope this helps you. If you don't mind sharing the results of your survey,
i'd be happy to hear what you've learned since i coordinate a Public Health
training program for employees here at the health department i work in.
Happy Holidays!
Mark J. Kittleson, PhD, FAAHB
Professor, Health Education
Graduate Director, Health Education & Recreation
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#1348
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:36:54 -0600
From: "Mark A. Temple" <matempl@ILSTU.EDU>
Subject: Fwd: Tune in as MTV Addresses Sexual Health - Sunday,
December 22 at 8:00 p.m.
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FYI:
>Good Afternoon Advocates of Comprehensive Sexuality Education,
>
>We thought that you would find this interesting.
>
>Everybody s Doing It to Air Sunday, December 22 at 8:00 p.m. followed by
>the re-airing of
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>Fight For Your Rights: Sex in the Classroom.
>
>Everybody s Doing It is an original MTV produced movie that is set to air
>on December 22 at 8:00 p.m. The movie is a parody of an
>abstinence-only-until-marriage program funded by the federal government.
>Immediately following Everybody s Doing It at 9:00 p.m., MTV will re-air
>Fight For Your Rights: Sex in the Classroom, a half-hour program
>highlighting the work of students who are advocating for comprehensive
>sexuality education in their schools and creatively addresses the numerous
>shortcomings of abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.
>
>To view MTV s on-air schedule see
>
>Adrienne Verrilli
>Director of Communications
>Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.(SIECUS)
>130 W. 42nd Street, Suite 350
>New York, NY 10019
>p- 212-819-9770
>f- 212-819-9776
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#1349
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:03:51 -0500
From: Lea Olsen <LOlsen@CI.MILFORD.CT.US>
Subject: Winter Health
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Hello,
Does anyone know of any organizations that would have
brochures/pamphlets/posters (preferably free!) about winter health topics
(ie - frostbite, safe sledding/shoveling)?
Lea Olsen, CHES
Community Health Education
Milford Health Department
82 New Haven Avenue
Milford, CT 06460
(203) 783-3315
Fax (203) 783-3286
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#1350
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:43:48 -0500
From: nfb <nfb@GWU.EDU>
Subject: CHHCS News Alerts: US Delegates to U.N. Conference Object to Abortion
and Condom Use/Most Women Get Timely Prenatal Care, HHS Reports
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CHHCS News Alerts 12/19/02
US Delegates to U.N. Conference Object to Abortion and Condom Use:
Saying their government cannot support any program that seems to promote
abortion or the use of condoms rather than abstinence to prevent
adolescent pregnancy, the U.S. delegation to a United Nations population
conference voted against a plan of action on population policies
December 17.
Most Women Get Timely Prenatal Care, HHS Reports:
The National Center on Health Statistics in the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services confirmed today that in the year 2001, 83
percent of women in the United States received prenatal care in the
first trimester, up from 76 percent in 1990, and only 1 percent of women
received no prenatal care at all.
Web Manager
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS)
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