Charting your career path through clear professional values and purpose.

Clearly articulating one's professional purpose and professional values can clarify career direction as well as provide inspiration and ongoing career motivation for emerging, established, and senior health education professionals. Through examples and exercises, this article provides a method for clarifying and using professional values and purpose statements for health education professionals.

Associate editors' foreword: entrepreneurship in health education and health promotion: five cardinal rules.

A career in health education or health promotion (HE/HP) can be developed in many ways. In past editions of this department, career development has been discussed in relation to distance (Balonna, 2001), consulting (Bookbinder, 2001), certifications (Hayden, 2005), graduate school (Cottrell & Hayden, 2007), and many other topics. This article looks at a less traditional means of career development-entrepreneurship.