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Strengthening Quality Assurance in Health Education: Recent Milestones and Future Directions

Alyson Taub, EdD, CHES

Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, New York

David A. Birch, PhD, CHES

Department of Health Education and Promotion at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC

M. Elaine Auld, MPH, CHES

Society for Public Health Education in Washington, DC

Linda Lysoby, MS, CHES

National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. in Whitehall, PA

Laura Rasar King, MPH, CHES

Council on Education for Public Health in Washington, DC

The health education profession has a lengthy history of efforts to assure the quality of health education professional preparation and practice. These initiatives to improve the value and accountability of health education are not only beneficial to current practitioners and faculty but also to consumers, students, employers, other professional colleagues, and numerous other stakeholders. This article describes the movement during the last decade to further strengthen quality assurance in health education, including current credentialing mechanisms for individuals and academic programs, the efforts of three national accreditation task forces, and the 2006 Third National Congress for Institutions Preparing Health Educators (Dallas II). Post—Dallas II activities related to program accreditation and approval and individual certification are presented as well as future directions for the health education workforce.

Key Words: quality assurance • credentialing • accreditation • health education • workforce development

This version was published on April 1, 2009

Health Promotion Practice, Vol. 10, No. 2, 192-200 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1524839908329854
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