Distinguished Career Award
Encyclopedia
APHA-PHEHP Distinguished Career Award is given for outstanding contribution to the practice and profession of health education
, health promotion
and/or health communications. The awardee must have earned a terminal degree
20 years or more prior to receiving the award.
Health education
Health education is the profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health...
, health promotion
Health promotion
Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization's 2005 Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health"...
and/or health communications. The awardee must have earned a terminal degree
Terminal degree
A terminal degree is, in some countries, the highest academic degree in a given field of study. This phrase is in common use in the United States, but is not universal in an international context: the concept is not in general use in the United Kingdom, for example, and the exact definition varies...
20 years or more prior to receiving the award.