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#673

Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:56:08 -0400

From: Georgia Polacek <georgianlj@NETSCAPE.NET>

Subject: book

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If you are concerned about the 2008 elections, frustrated with the 2004 election results and are seeking some answers, I highly recommend Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant (ISBN-13: 978-0307339362).? The book is thought provoking and at the very least provides insight into some of the attitudes that seem to prevail.? I realize this is a case study, however, I also agree with the author that this?small city?is not so very different from many small towns/cities across the US.? Some opportunities for change and advocacy are certainly apparent.

Georgia Polacek, Ph.D., CHES

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#674

Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:29:15 -0400

From: Michaela Conley <michaela@HPCAREER.NET>

Subject: question for you faculty out there in HEDIR land

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Hello All,

Here's my question: Does your department have a means to communicate with your alumni? I'm guessing that alumni stuff is done by the university overall.. but I could be wrong... I once was... wait a minute... never mind, I'm mistaken.

So, if your department does keep in contact with alumni, how: email, email list, mailing list...

If they do not, why not?

Thanks very much for any information you may provide.

:-) Michaela

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#675

Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:34:54 -0400

From: Angela Stangarone <a_stangarone@HOTMAIL.COM>

Subject: health fair value

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#676

Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:36:12 -0400

From: Angela Stangarone <a_stangarone@HOTMAIL.COM>

Subject: health fair value

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#677

Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:09:51 -0400

From: Jim at CPP <jvgrizzell@CSUPOMONA.EDU>

Subject: Re: health fair value

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Hi Angela and HEDIR folks,

I love the topic of "health fairs." I'm really kind of down on most university health fairs. Below are some evaluation outcomes and resources for health fairs I've gathered over the last 17 years.

Health Fairs seem to range:

FROM being an incredible waste of money -- expensive, use a lot of staff hours, have no measured improvement in anything (attitudes, knowledge/student learning, intentions, perceptions or behaviors), reach very few of the total student body, be a great show giving the illusion of doing something ----

TO really good - having evaluated for measurable improvements for many variables like short-term improvements in intentions, attitudes, knowledge, perception, student learning outcomes, measurable medium-term health behavior improvements due to really good follow-up/follow-through with participants, build campus-community organizing capacity and all creating a

wow Student Affairs VPs,

Below are some experiences I've had and several resources (including a health fair planning guide).

Three experiences over more than 15 years of fairs have given me ideas for what works and doesn't. A partnership with the very well planned Health Fair Expo in Los Angeles required us to follow-up with participants to ask, urge or otherwise move them to actually do some of the recommendations of clinicians based on assessments and screenings. That did get participants to take action and we knew it!!! A later set of Fairs without evaluation or follow-up cost at least $15,000 in a staff persons' time during the year to organize them; cost an additional $1,000 for setup with tables, chairs, canopies, etc.; got only ~7% (~1,200 students) of the student body to walk through and of those 2/3 came from the 3 buildings closest to the fairs'

location and missing students in majors with significant heatlh problems based on previous campus health needs assessments. The third example is an SHS director who has business background I met at this year's ACHA meeting.

He is ready to drop fairs because they spent $5,000 on a health fair and only got 60 participants.

So what works. I believe Fairs must have and absolutely can be designed to (and evaluated for) improved attitudes, Student Learning (the hot issue for student affairs), intentions, perceptions in the short-term and in medium term, behaviors. Part of the required planning process for any health promotion program must have evaluation (which can be easy/simple/basic/brief and at least ask what they learned on the fair day, what they will do in the next 6-months to improve their health, plus get students to allow you to send an email so you can follow-up with an online survey in 2 or 3 months to ask what they have done. You can use the same incentives to get follow-up participation that you used to get participation on the day of the fair. The measured/evaluated for short-term outcomes may really wow your Student Affair VPs.

Here are a some resources and samples.

"Health Fair Planning Guide" - Texas Cooperative Extension, Texas A&M Univ.

http://fcs.tamu.edu/health/health_fair_planning_guide/index.php

"Effectiveness of Health Fairs, Displays, Posters"

www.thcu.ca/infoandresources/publications/DisplayHealthFairSummary.doc

If you find more recent information than this please share it.

PowerPoint with great graphics about health/wellness history and trends, cost effective evidence-base wellness. Look at the notes sections of the slides too.

www.csupomona.edu/~jvgrizzell/hppolicy/21stcentury_health_wellness.ppt

Health Fair / HP Program Evaluation (Brief & Easy Form) www.csupomona.edu/~jvgrizzell/eval/health_fair_program_evaluation.xls

Logic model with short-, medium- and long term objectives www.csupomona.edu/~jvgrizzell/hpprog/logicmodels/logic_model_and_program_gui

de_hp.doc

Jim

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