Death education coverage in selected health education books and periodicals

This article represents an attempt to ascertain the quantity of death and dying literature within selected health education periodicals and introductory health education books during the past 7 years. The study is part of an ongoing effort by the author to determine relationships between health education and death education. Approximately two-thirds of the general health education books reviewed now include chapters or sections on death-related phenomena. Four nationally refereed periodicals, viewed by the author as most useful to the health educator, have also been publishing a considerable number of death education pieces in recent years. Involvement by health educators, via the publication of death and dying information, should be viewed as a positive gesture toward achieving multidisciplinary goals within death education.