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Global Health Promotion is a quarterly peer-reviewed public health journal that covers health promotion and health education. The editor-in-chief is Suzanne Jackson (University of Toronto). It was established in 1994 and is currently published by SAGE Publications on behalf of International Union for Health Promotion and Education.
Health Promotion Practice is a bimonthly peer-reviewed public health journal covering the field of public health, especially the practical application of health promotion and education. The editor-in-chief is Kathleen Roe ( San Jose State University ).
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2017 impact factor was 1.008, ranking it 125th out of 156 journals in the category "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health" [5] and 165 out of 238 journals in the category "Education & Educational Research".
SOPHE has roughly 4,000 members, but this varies from year to year. Its membership represents a diversity of disciplines that span professionals in health and medical education, fitness, school health, public health research, clinical research, health promotion, health policymakers, environmental health educators, and other community health professionals and students in the United States and ...
The "American" definition of health promotion, first promulgated by the American Journal of Health Promotion in the late 1980s, focuses more on the delivery of services with a bio-behavioral approach rather than environmental support using a settings approach. Later the power on the environment over behavior was incorporated.
Health Education Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering health education. It was established in 1986 and is published by Oxford University Press. It is associated with the International Union for Health Promotion and Education. The editor-in-chief is Michael Eriksen (Georgia State University).
Today school health education is seen in the U.S. as a "comprehensive health curricula", combining community, schools, and patient care practice, in which "Health education covers the continuum from disease prevention and promotion of optimal health to the detection of illness to treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term care."
Health promotion activities include prevention strategies such as health education and lifestyle medicine, and are current, non-clinical life choices such as eating nutritious meals and exercising often, that prevent lifestyle-related medical conditions, improve the quality of life, and create a sense of overall well-being. [29]