title: Peer education: a viewpoint and critique.
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.
authors.affiliation: Healthwise, Columbia University, New York City, USA.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Lindsey
mesh_terms: D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010379:Peer Group; D013333:Student Health Services