Wellness Council

Some of the things that I learned from browsing the site were that the WELCOA finds that using Result-Oriented Approaches is a more effective way at getting employees to have more healthy lifestyles. This approach uses more research when creating programs, so more information is able to be given to participants. This tells me that it is ok as an employer or PH director to start at activity-oriented programs and then move my way towards result-oriented as I become more familiar with the company and the people.

Under free resources, there is a plethora of information for people to use. There are free reports that contain valuable information for creating HP programs in the workplace. Also there are past interviews that can help guide you to hire the right kind of the person for the job. I think that the most interesting was the case studies. There you can find information of America's Healthiest Companies, and see what they are doing to find such success. From that you can pick and choose what you would like to implement into your health promotion program.
I found all of this information very useful, I didnt know this website even existed so it is nice to know I will have this for future information.

Jobs in the Health Field

So when I looked up the different words a lot of jobs popped up. I looked at the most relevant ones, and looked at their requirements as well as job descriptions. Below are some of my findings:

Health Education
Assistant CEO for SOPHE
A masters degree in Public Health required, and CHES is preferred. This person would assist the CEO for SOPHE

Project Coordinator for SOPHE
Bachelor Degree in PH, CHES preferred.
designed projects in conjuntion with the CDC

Biostatistics
Research Analyst with Social and Scientific Systems Inc.
MS in Public Health required

Policy and Management
Environmental Health Manager for SOPHE
Masters in Public Health required (environmental emphasis)

Epidemiology
same as Biostatistics
Bachelors in public Health required

Community Health
Public Health Nutritionist for Kent County Michigan
BS in Nutrition or Dietetics

Health Disparities
Senior Policy Associate for Child Health for the Childrens Defense Fund
At least a Masters in Public Health or Public Policy

What I discovered was that a lot of the jobs I found required a masters degree. There were a few that only required a bachelors, and many preferred CHES. There were a ton of jobs listed for each of the searches, so it is obvious that our field is not lacking in the job market.

Nation's Health Review

I read an article from the October 2008 edition of the magazine. The article was entitled "Choose accountability: Keep the legal U.S. drinking age at 21". It was an article written by the president of the APHA. The article discussed how there have been quite a few college presidents pushing congress to lower the legal drinking age to 18. They attribute their reasoning to their inability to control the binge drinking that has been going on on their campuses. The Harvard School of Public Health did a study that found that binge drinking had to do with the culture of the campus, and found that campuses that had Greek Life as well as intercollegiate athletics had much higher rates of binge drinking. Personally, I do not think that the drinking age should be lowered. I think that students are going to drink regardless of their age and whether it is legal or not. This is just going to allow more people to be outwardly drunk in public and able to make bad decisions like drunk driving, or participating in risky behavior like unprotected sex. I think that if schools are having problems with binge drinking they should make some changes within their respective university like increasing education and awareness of binge drinking.