1. HISTORY OF HEALTH EDUCATION

2. Early History  Trial and Error (lay-referral network)  Medical lore passed down from generation to generation  Medicine man or physician

3. Ancient Cultures  Good hygiene practices  Code of Hammurabi

4. Greeks Balance of physical, mental and spiritual Time of Hippocrates

5. Romans  Conquered the Greeks  Exceptional builders of water and sewage systems  Advanced study of human anatomy and surgery

6. Middle Ages  Fortified Cities – sanitation issues?  Great epidemics

7. Renaissance  Beginning of change  Bloodletting, “water casting”, barbers  Leeuwenhoek

8. Age of Enlightenment  Disease and plagues raged on  Miasmas theory of disease  Edward Jenner – small pox

9. 1800s  Diseases continued to rage  1842 Edwin Chadwick’s report  1849 John Snow – Broad St. pump  Louis Pasteur – germ theory  Joseph Lister – antiseptic method

10. Health Education in the U.S.  1647 – “Old Deluder” Law  Mandates to teach hygiene in public schools  1850 – Shattuck Report

11. Health Education in the U.S. cont.  1873 – APHA  1874 – 1890 Women’s Crusade – later called the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

12. 20 th Century Health Education  1914 – WWI, 1 st large scale measure of health status of Americans  1900 – 1920s – time of reform  Great Depression  WWII

13. 1950s & 1960s  1950 – Health Education emerging  1960s – prevention being noticed

14. 1970s – The Era of Prevention  1971 – Coalition of National Health Organizations formed  1974 – LaLonde Report  **Health Field Concept**  1974 – CDC  1979 – Healthy People: The Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

15. 1980s, 1990s & 2000s  Promoting Health & Preventing Disease: Objectives for the Nation  Initial Role Delineation; CHES recognized  National Health Education Standards; Competencies Update Project  Unified Code of Ethics; Promotion of CHES