Whew---- It's Five years later

and.... no one cares? Only a few health educators started this discussion way (way) back in 1985, at the AAHPERD/AAHE National Convention in Atlanta. Was it too radical an idea? Are health educators just the middle majority or laggards and just follow the academic leadership?

What dod you get when your profession limps along for so many years, almost 25 years later?

- fewer jobs

- fewer academic departments

- less autonomy as a profession

- lower paying jobs

- no national grants for graduate level training (nurses get them all the time)

- diffusion of roles among other ill-prepared health "professional."

etc.

What are YOU going to do about it?

- Go to http://healthbehavior.com Join AHEA

- Yell and raise hell with SOPHE and AAHE to walk the walk!

- Get out of Health Education and become a nurse!

Michael