American Health (magazine)

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American Health was an American magazine devoted to health, and has been called "one of the fastest-growing magazines of the 1980s". [1]

History and profile

T George Harris and Owen J. Lipstein established American Health in 1981. [2] [3] The first issue appeared in March 1982. [4] Its editors have included Stephen Kiesling, T George Harris and Joel Gurin. [5] [6] The magazine was acquired by the Reader's Digest Association in 1990. [7] The readers of the magazine were mostly women. [8] In May 1984 the frequency of the magazine switched to monthly. [4]

According to an abstract, Madison Avenue magazine reported in 1986 that American Health had an "upbeat and informative" tone and boasted of a circulation of 85,000. [9] The last issue of American Health was published in October 1999. [7] Then, its trademark and circulation assets had been acquired by Time Warner's Health magazine. [7] [10]

American Health received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence (400,000 to 1,000,000 circulation) from the American Society of Magazine Editors in 1985, and was a finalist in that category in 1984, as well as being a finalist for the Public Interest award in 1991. [5] The magazine won two American Psychological Association National Media Awards and a Sidney Hillman Foundation prize. [1]

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  4. 1 2 Sandra Salmans (December 14, 1983). "Health Magazine is in Fine Shape". The New York Times. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
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  9. ↑ "Sales call: American Health flexes its muscles to attract readers and advertisers". faqs.org.
  10. ↑ "Time Inc.'s Health magazine Announces Rate Base Increase to 1.3 Million Effective January 2000". Time Warner Inc. (Press release). August 30, 1999.
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