American School Health Association collection of key leaders, 1822-2010 (bulk 1937-2008)

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American School Health Association collection of key leaders, 1822-2010 (bulk 1937-2008)

This collection, acquired by former Southern Illinois health Education Faculty member, Judy Drolet, consists of materials related to the history of health education and some of its key leadership, donated by the American School Health Association. The C. E. (Clair Elsmere) Turner papers, within this collection, include documents as they relate to his World Health Organization consulting work in Asia, Europe, and North America. The Turner files also include materials from selected National and International organizations, including Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, American Red Cross, United States Public Health Service and War Service, and International Planned Parenthood Foundation. National health education and public health organization materials are included in the collection, including those from the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation; American School Health Association; American Public Health Association; and Society for Public Health Education, as Dr. Turner was a founding member and first president of the latter association. Also included are selected publications, reports, and files focusing on topics in school health education, professional preparation, and selected key leaders in health education, including Delbert Oberteuffer, Richard Means, William Carlyon, and Eileen Harris (Zunich).

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American public health association

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The American Public Health Association was founded in 1872 as a professional organization of physicians, nurses, educators, sanitary engineers, environmentalists, social workers, optometrists, podiatrists, pharmacists, dentists, hygienists, and other community health specialists. In pursuit of its goal of protecting and promoting personal and environmental health, the APHA offers services including the promulgation of standards, the establishment of uniform practices and procedures, development ...

United States. Public Health Service

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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...

Society for public health education

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Carlyon, William.

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American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.

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The American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (AAHPER) is a service organization whose founding dates back to November 27, 1885 when William Gilbert Anderson, an instructor of physical education at Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, invited a group of people working in the gymnastic field to come together to discuss their profession. A successor to the American Physical Education Association, it changed it name in 1975 to the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education and ...

Means, Richard K.

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Turner, C. E. 1890-1974.

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Oberteuffer, Delbert, 1901-

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Professor Emeritus of Physical Education, The Ohio State University. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1930-ca. 1976]. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 21814772 ...

World Health Organization . Country Office in Pakistan

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American school health association

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Drolet, Judy Catherine, 1951-

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Dr. Drolet received her doctorate from the University of Oregon in 1982. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist, a Fellow of the American School Health Association, a Fellow of the American Association for Health Education, and Director of The Elena M. Sliepcevich Centre for Health Education Studies. From the description of Judy Catherine Drolet papers, 1982-2008 (bulk 1997-2008) (Southern Illinois University). WorldCat record id: 702161432 ...

International Planned Parenthood Federation.

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American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

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