#148
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:02:06 -0600
From: Michael Pejsach <healthedman@COX.NET>
Subject: Health Education Consolidation
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Mark, Karen,
Did you know that I have had a poll running on the issue of consolidation since
2003?
The poll is located @ http://healthbehavior.com/AHEAWEB/AHEApoll.shtml
Although we've had only 318 "votes," (no marketing of this poll- you had to go
to AHEA first) on the question of "Do you believe that Health Educators need a
single organization versus 3 or 4?" 16% selected "NO," and 84% selected some
sort of "yes" answer.
While we need more folks answering this question (and the other 2 on the same
page), early, non-scientific, data supports the concept.
We should be data driven. Do we have anything else out there to support
consolidation of the 3-4 (actually more than 10) Health Education-related
Professional Organizations?
Michael
Michael Pejsach, Ed.D.
Life&Health Enhancement Services
4636 W. Esplanade
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#149
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:41:49 -0600
From: "Cissell, William" <WCissell@MAIL.TWU.EDU>
Subject: Single Professional Organization for Health Educators
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Michael,
There are currently four national organizations, which are self-determining,
with exclusively health educators as members. These are, alphabetically,
American Academy for Health Behavior, American Health Educators Association (the
one you started), Eta Sigma Gamma, and SOPHE. The rest of the professional
organizations with health educators as members have infrastructures that do not
permit health educators to merge them with other organizations to create the
single organization of health educators. It seems to me that Eta Sigma Gamma has
aligned itself with the American School Health Association, which has a large
portion of its membership who are not health educators. ASHA is unlikely to
merge with AAHB, AHEA and SOPHE, because nurses and other school health
professionals, other than health educators, would oppose this.
The best prospects for merging might be with AAHB, AHEA, and SOPHE. I am
skeptical about prospects to get AAHB to merge with SOPHE. What are the
prospects that AHEA will?
Bill Cissell
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#150
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:21:42 -0500
From: rick petosa <petosa.1@OSU.EDU>
Subject: Fwd: Single Professional Organization for Health Educators
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I have heard forms of this discussion about unification of health education
organizations for 30 years. The primary assumption is that a single voice would
yield significant gains in political power. But I do not know the basis for this
assumption. Why do we assume a single voice would yield added benefits. What is
the actual basis of our collective power or lack thereof?
rick petosa
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>Michael,
>
>There are currently four national organizations, which are
>self-determining, with exclusively health educators as members. These
>are, alphabetically, American Academy for Health Behavior, American
>Health Educators Association (the one you started), Eta Sigma Gamma,
>and SOPHE. The rest of the professional organizations with health
>educators as members have infrastructures that do not permit health
>educators to merge them with other organizations to create the single
>organization of health educators. It seems to me that Eta Sigma Gamma
>has aligned itself with the American School Health Association, which
>has a large portion of its membership who are not health educators.
>ASHA is unlikely to merge with AAHB, AHEA and SOPHE, because nurses and
>other school health professionals, other than health educators, would oppose
this.
>
>The best prospects for merging might be with AAHB, AHEA, and SOPHE. I am
>skeptical about prospects to get AAHB to merge with SOPHE. What are
>the prospects that AHEA will?
>
>Bill Cissell
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The Ohio State University
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#151
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:44:44 -0500
From: Suzanne Suggs <suggs@SUGGS.INFO>
Subject: Re: Single Professional Organization for Health Educators
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Hi Bill et al.,
I've been following this discussion and find it quite interesting.
You are right Bill, AAHB is not likely to merge with SOPHE. To be a member of
AAHB you must go through a peer-review process and meet eligibility criteria in
terms of publications, etc (and pay your dues). You must also maintain a certain
number of research publications to continue being a member. SOPHE just requires
you to sign up and pay your dues. I believe this is more typical of professional
organizations.
I do sometimes feel spread a bit thin in terms of professional organizations. I
recently left private industry for academia and teach in a health communication
program. So, I am now a member of NCA. I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of
merging organizations though. I like that each organization seems to have a
focus within the field. Unfortunately, the reality of being a part of so many
organizations is that I can't go to all the annual meetings. APHA is usually top
choice as it is so large and has a little bit of everything. Although this can
be seen as a down side, it is an upside when it comes to time and finances.
Just before I was to hit "send", I saw the posting from Rick. Great point. Is it
more important to have a single voice or a strong, evidence-based voice? Maybe
more thought needs to be placed on how we communicate our message.
Glad to see dialogue come back on this list!
Thanks Mark for your continued commitment!
Warm regards,
Suzanne Suggs
On Feb 12, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Cissell, William wrote:
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> Michael,
>
> There are currently four national organizations, which are self-
> determining, with exclusively health educators as members. These are,
> alphabetically, American Academy for Health Behavior, American Health
> Educators Association (the one you started), Eta Sigma Gamma, and
> SOPHE. The rest of the professional organizations with health
> educators as members have infrastructures that do not permit health
> educators to merge them with other organizations to create the single
> organization of health educators. It seems to me that Eta Sigma Gamma
> has aligned itself with the American School Health Association, which
> has a large portion of its membership who are not health educators.
> ASHA is unlikely to merge with AAHB, AHEA and SOPHE, because nurses
> and other school health professionals, other than health educators,
> would oppose this.
>
> The best prospects for merging might be with AAHB, AHEA, and
> SOPHE. I am skeptical about prospects to get AAHB to merge with
> SOPHE. What are the prospects that AHEA will?
>
> Bill Cissell
>
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#152
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:32:22 -0500
From: Elizabeth Stillman <stillman.elizabeth@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: unsubscribe request
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#153
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:27:22 -0500
From: Becky Smith <BSmith@AAHPERD.ORG>
Subject: Re: citation of paper on health dept. locations in colleges &
universities
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The Directory of Institutions Offering Graduate and Undergraduate Degree
Programs in Health Education is collected and published bi-annually by the
American Association for Health Education (AAHE). This information has been
collected and published for the past 32 years. The citation below is for the
2003 directory. For the 2005 Directory please go to the November/December 2005
issue of the American Journal of Health Education.
Thank you
Becky Smith
Executive Director
AAHE
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aahe@aahperd.org
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Subject: citation of paper on health dept. locations in colleges & universities
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Hi Folks: Since several people asked me to forward this information if I get it,
here is a citation for the paper on where health education departments are
located:
Lynda,
Is this what you are looking for?
American Association for Health Education. Directory of institutions offering
undergraduate and graduate degree programs in health education. J Health Educ.
2003; 34(4): 219-235.
Hope it helps,
Raffy
Lynda Ransdell, Ph.D., FACSM
Chair, Dept. of Kinesiology
Boise State University
1910 University Dr.
Boise, ID 83725
Email: lyndaransdell@boisestate.edu
Phone: 208-426-4270
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