Peer Education: A Viewpoint and Critique
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of American College Health
- Vol. 45 (4), 187-189
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.1997.9936882
Abstract
Peer education has been promoted by college health service health education programs for many years. This Viewpoint questions some assumptions that underlie the use of peer health educators and highlights some of the problems of training peers as paraprofessionals.Keywords
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