American Association for Health Education

About HETTJ

On February 16, 2011, the American Association for Health Education (AAHE) launched the Health Education Teaching Techniques Journal (HETTJ) as its first peer-reviewed, Internet-based journal focused exclusively on quality health education teaching techniques. HETTJ is an open- access professional journal, available to members of AAHE/AAHPERD as well as individuals and groups outside of these organizations. In pdf format, all articles may be downloaded and printed. This new periodical is "open volume," meaning that as soon as an article is accepted, it is published online within two weeks. Each year, all articles are contained in a single volume.

Publishing health education teaching ideas/techniques has a long and productive history in AAHE. In its first journal, School Health Review (September, 1969)—when there was no teaching ideas column—the second sentence on the inside cover reveals that the purpose of the journal "is to provide new information and ideas for those responsible for health instruction and health services in the school of the nation."  Prior to AAHE placing teaching techniques in its own journal (i.e., HETTJ), a teaching ideas column was contained in the journal, Health Education (1976), which became the Journal of Health Education (1991), which became the American Journal of Health Education (2001). Contributing Editors were:

1976-1982: AAHE Editor and editorial staff

1982-1989: Kathleen Middleton

1989-2000: Robert McDermott (beginning of articles being peer-reviewed externally)

2000-2004: Susan Telljohann

2004-2007: Betty Hubbard

2007-2010: Dixie Dennis  

Drs. Robert McDermott, Dixie Dennis, Betty Hubbard, and Susan Telljohann

Please enjoy browsing AAHE's HETTJ, and submit your manuscripts for review (Author Guidelines) to www.journalsubmit.com. If you have questions, please contact Dixie Dennis at dennisdi@apsu.edu.  

Dixie L. Dennis, PhD, MCHES, FAAHE  

Editor, Health Education Teaching Techniques Journal