If we want more evidence-based practice, we need more practice-based evidence.*

CHAPTER 1: 
HEALTH PROMOTION AND A FRAMEWORK FOR PLANNING - Archived Headlines

Dorothy Nyswander, Professor Emerita, one of the generation of health educators credited with establishing the profession on firm behavioral and social science footing in schools of public health, died in December 1998 at the age of 104 in Berkeley, California where she had lived since retiring from UC Berkeley in the 1950s. Hundreds of public health educators consider her their mentor or academic grandmother. She helped create the Society for Public Health Education in 1958, and authored the famous Astoria report on school health. For more details, see the New York Times obituary: http://query.nytimes.com/search/abstract?res=F00C10FF3F5B0C7A8EDDAB0994D0494D81. Dorothy recruited Bill Griffiths to her faculty at Berkeley. He died earlier the same year. Our 3rd edition of Health Promotion Planning is dedicated to him and to two other leading figures in health education and health promotion who died in 1998: Ruby Isom, who retired from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and served on the faculty at San Diego State after her retirement, and Hod Ogden, who retired from the Centers for Disease Control in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services where he headed the Health Education Bureau during its formative years in the 1970s and 1980s.  

"THE EIGHT PHASES OF PRECEDE AND PROCEED"
Phase 1: The Social Assessment and Situation Analysis:

Measures of Well-Being as Indicators of Quality of Life or Health?

From an August 1998 Yankelovich national U.S. survey, men and women vary in what they say is the most important form of well-being:

   Men Women 
Mental 38% 35%
Spiritual 30% 40%
Physical   32% 25%

Despite the apparent importance attached to mental and spiritual well-being, the UBC Institute of Health Promotion Research found in surveys of adults in the Yukon Territory of Canada that an overall measure of perceived health status relative to others of one's own age correlated best with physical well-being.

Ratner, P.A., Johnson, J.L., & Jeffery, B. Examining emotional, physical, social, and spiritual health as determinants of self-rated health status. American Journal of Health Promotion, 12(4):275-282, 1998.