"It is imperative that health education practitioners at all levels of preparation and practice settings strive for excellence and quality in what they do. This text provides practitioners with the necessary skills that allow this to happen."
—Brick Lancaster, M.A., C.H.E.S., Associate Director for Health Education, Practice and Policy Division of Adult and Community, Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
"I enjoy the vignettes and they provide a very practical orientation to what health educators might face in the real world and how they incrementally and systematically go about implementing an assigned task.
I really enjoyed [the “Did You Know?”] feature, especially the ones that are fact-based and include references for the factoid. I think these facts provide concrete 'evidence' for why the topics addressed in the chapter are relevant and important.
I like the addition of Internet resources and the additional print resources sections that have been added beyond the references…I also like the additions of the Did you know, vignettes and key terms."
—Karen Peters, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Key terms are excellent!! Students would gain a great deal from them. I like the breadth of the material and it includes information crucial for a health educator to be successful."
—Frederick Randolph, Western Illinois University
"I believe the vignettes add a powerful component to the pedagogical work done here. These are interesting and might be used to create interesting discussion points within a classroom meeting. I like the concept of the key terms and believe students would find them useful…this text offers a good firm handle on challenges for future health education professionals. So many textbooks merely teach. This book educates.
Too many textbooks provide a cookbook approach to methods. This book goes far beyond that by portraying, quite eloquently, the art of the field of health promotion. I also appreciate the weave of ethics throughout many chapters of the book."
—Regina Galer-Unti, Purdue University