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August 2004, Vol 94, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1295
© 2004 American Public Health Association

LETTER

UPDATING DERRYBERRY’S PRIORITIES AND THE ROLE OF HEALTH EDUCATION

Daniel Leviton, PhD

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Daniel Leviton, PhD, Department of Public and Community Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2611 (e-mail: dleviton@umd.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

I suggest that the priority health issue articulated by Derryberry1 in 1954 needs expansion in consideration of contemporary world affairs. Derryberry saw chronic diseases as "[t]he health problems of greatest significance today" and says that "[h]ealth education and health educators [should] be expected to contribute to the reduction of the negative impact of such major health problems."1(p368)

In this age of violence and weapons of mass destruction, the health field with special reference to health education and health promotion (HEHP) should also give priority to reducing the premature mortality, unnecessary morbidity, and suffering associated with forms of inflicted or "horrendous . . . [Full Text]






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