Other articles by Stephen Gambescia:

Cell phone ban?
(November 4, 2008)

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Dr. Gambescia is a PA SOPHE board member, chair of the national SOPHE Marketing the Profession Task Force, and former SOPHE President.

Stephen F. Gambescia, PhD, MEd, MBA, CHES
Associate Professor, Health Services Administration
College of Nursing and Health Professions
Drexel University
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Stressing Prevention

Stephen Gambescia, PhD, MEd, MBA, CHES

Posted June 26, 2008

In his article Stressing Prevention, Dr. Gambescia discusses the role of health educators in Pennsylvania. Published in The Patriot News AS I SEE IT column June 26, 2008, Dr. Gambescia makes the case for professionally prepared health educators to be included in the "Prescription for Pennsylvania," certainly one of the most ambitious health care reform plans proposed by any state.

Excerpt:

One health care provider that is missing from the health care team, if we are serious about this change of culture to disease prevention and wellness, is the professionally prepared health educator...Unfortunately, the state Health Department and county health departments, as well as other organizations, use far too few, if any, professionally prepared health educators.

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