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Direct linkTaub, Alyson; Goekler, Susan; Auld, M. Elaine; Birch, David A.; Muller, Susan; Wengert, Deitra; Allegrante, John P. – Health Education & Behavior, 2014
The health education profession is committed to maintaining the highest standards of quality assurance, including accreditation of professional preparation programs in both school and community/public health education. Since 2001, the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) has increased attention to strengthening accreditation processes for…
Descriptors: Health Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Quality Assurance, Teachers
Cottrell, Randall R.; Auld, M. Elaine; Birch, David A.; Taub, Alyson; King, Laura Rasar; Allegrante, John P. – Health Education & Behavior, 2012
This article provides an update on initiatives in individual certification and accreditation of academic programs in public/community health education and school health education in the United States. Although we provide some historical context, the focus primarily addresses credentialing efforts that have evolved since the Galway Consensus…
Descriptors: Health Education, Teachers, Teacher Certification, Teacher Education Programs
Howze, Elizabeth H.; Auld, M. Elaine; Woodhouse, Lynn D.; Gershick, Jessica; Livingood, William C. – Health Education & Behavior, 2009
The Galway Consensus Conference articulated key definitions, principles, values, and core domains of practice as the foundation for the diffusion of health promotion across the globe. The conference occurred in the context of an urgent need for large numbers of trained health workers in developing countries, which face multiple severe threats to…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Public Health, Developing Nations, Conferences (Gatherings)
Allegrante, John P.; Barry, Margaret M.; Auld, M. Elaine; Lamarre, Marie-Claude; Taub, Alyson – Health Education & Behavior, 2009
The interest in competencies, standards, and quality assurance in the professional preparation of public health professionals whose work involves health promotion and health education dates back several decades. In Australia, Europe, and North America, where the interest in credentialing has gained momentum, there have been rapidly evolving…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Health Education, Health Promotion, Health Personnel
Allegrante, John P.; Airhihenbuwa, Collins O.; Auld, M. Elaine; Birch, David A.; Roe, Kathleen M.; Smith, Becky J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
During the past 40 years, health education has taken significant steps toward improving quality assurance in professional preparation through individual certification and program approval and accreditation. Although the profession has begun to embrace individual certification, program accreditation in health education has been neither uniformly…
Descriptors: Health Education, Colleges, Public Health, Quality Control
Airhihenbuwa, Collins O.; Cottrell, Randall R.; Adeyanju, Matthew; Auld, M. Elaine; Lysoby, Linda; Smith, Becky J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2005
For more than 60 years, the health education profession has worked to develop, implement, and refine guidelines for preparing and training health educators. Among the seminal works documenting this dedication to, and quest for, quality assurance in professional preparation and practice are guidelines for professional education of health educators…
Descriptors: Health Education, Public Health, Quality Control, Guidelines
