tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98901752011-11-27T16:51:46.152-08:00Sometimes talking about issues that bug you often helps with the frustration and feelings. It helps you get on with other perhaps more important life issues.healthedmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837642172676357555noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9890175.post-42377076415794673922010-01-27T08:53:00.000-08:002010-01-27T08:58:38.701-08:00and.... 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? <div><br /></div><div>What dod you get when your profession limps along for so many years, almost 25 years later?</div><div>- fewer jobs</div><div>- fewer academic departments</div><div>- less autonomy as a profession</div><div>- lower paying jobs</div><div>- no national grants for graduate level training (nurses get them all the time)</div><div>- diffusion of roles among other ill-prepared health "professional."</div><div>etc.</div><div>What are YOU going to do about it? </div><div>- Go to http://healthbehavior.com Join AHEA</div><div>- Yell and raise hell with SOPHE and AAHE to walk the walk!</div><div>- Get out of Health Education and become a nurse!</div><div><br /></div><div>Michael</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9890175-4237707641579467392?l=healthed.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>healthedmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837642172676357555noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9890175.post-1104615407913512282005-01-01T13:28:00.000-08:002005-01-01T13:36:47.913-08:00The Health Education Profession has <br />1. CHES and NCHEC <br />2. Great Programs throughout the US <br />3. Great professional organizations <br /> <br />The Health Education Profession NEEDS: <br />1. Registration, in addition to, or as a result of, CHES <br />2. Better programs who FIGHT for their turf. <br />For example: <br />- Why are some Health Education Academic Programs allowing Home Ec to teach sexuality? <br />- Why do some Health Education Academic Programs allow PE to drive their program, when the PE professionals have little or no idea about the profession (ask them to define PRECEDE/PROCEED - the language of Health Ed-)!? <br />3. One unifying professional organization with the existing organization dropping their turf protection to protect the profession. <br />- For the "profession" to truly become a "profession," SOPHE, AAHE and other society's and groups must MERGE, or support the development of a mother ship, an"AMA of Health Education," with their own group/association becoming a sub part of the mother ship. <br />- What has to happen to make this happen: board members must truly believe and act on EMPOWERMENT, empowering the profession, and a unifying vision of the profession, as opposed to their TENURE aspirations, their myopic agendas, and/or their personal vision. <br /> <br />Michael<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9890175-110461540791351228?l=healthed.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>healthedmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02837642172676357555noreply@blogger.com10