In the year of the founding of the first Seventh-day Adventist health institution (which became Battle Creek Sanitarium), the first SDA health journal was launched. It was called the Health Reformer , later Good Health ; however, it was lost to the denomination when Dr. J. H. Kellogg and the Battle Creek Sanitarium were separated from the church. It was last listed in the 1906 Yearbook . However, by that time there were seven other health journals. Three of these— Life and Health, Washington, D.C.; Australasian Good Health, Wahroonga, Australia; and Good Health, London—were in English; the following were in other languages: Gute Gesundheit (“Good Health”), Hamburg; La Salud (“Health”), Guadalajara, Mexico; Sundhedsbladet (“Health Journal”), Copenhagen; and Le Vulgarisateur et Messager de l’Hygíene (“The Popularizer and Messenger of Hygiene”), Geneva.
Through the years the doctrine of health has been an important part of the SDA message, and these publications serve to inculcate the principles of healthful living and wholesome diet and the basic methods of home care of the sick.
The current health journals, listed in the 1993 Yearbook , are as follows:
In English:
Good Health , Warburton, Australia.
Health and Home, Manila, Philippines.
Herald of Health, The, Pune, India.
Vibrant Life, North America.
In other languages:
Danish: Sundhedsbladet (“Health Journal”), Odense, Denmark.
French: Vie et Santé (“Life and Health”), Dammarie-les-Lys Cedex, France.
German: Besser Leben (“Better Living”), Hamburg, Germany.
Leben und Gesundheit (“Life and Health”), Hamburg, Germany.
Hindi: Swasthya Aur Jeevan (“Life and Health”), Pune, India.
Indonesian: Rumah Tangga dan Kesehatan (“Home and Health”), Bandung, Java, Indonesia.
Italian: Vita e Salute (“Life and Health”), Florence, Italy.
Kannada: Arogyavani (“Life and Health”), Pune, India.
Korean: Home and Health , Seoul, Korea.
Norwegian: Sunnhetsbladet (“Health Journal”), Oslo, Norway.
Portuguese: Alcool, Fumo e Saude (“Smoke Signals”), Tatui, Brazil.
Sande e Lar (“Health and Home”),
Sacavem Codex, Portugal.
Vida e Saúde (“Life and Health”),
Tatui, Brazil.
Serbian: Zivot i Zdravlje (“Life and
Health”-Cyrillic alphabet), Belgrade,
Yugoslavia.
Spanish: Vida Feliz (“Happy Life”), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Swedish: Liv i Nutid (“Life Today”), Gavle, Sweden.
Tamil: Nalwazhi (“The Good Way”), Pune, India.
Telegu: Margadarsi (“Pathfinder”), Pune, India.
Urdu: Sehat (“Health”), Lahore, West Pakistan.