Access to Health, Green Edition

by Donatelle, Rebecca J.

• ISBN13: 9780321571120
• ISBN10: 0321571126
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-10
• Publisher: Benjamin Cummings

Summary

The newly revisedAccess to Health, Eleventh Edition features a reader-friendly design, an environmentally conscious Green Guide, and the best reader and instructor supplements package on the market, including an enhanced Teaching Tool Box with a more robust assessment program. Long known for its currency, research, and strength in behavior change for personal health readers, the Eleventh Edition ofAccess to Healthprovides a consistent framework for motivating readers to make healthy life choices. The revised editionrs"s updated coverage includes more emphasis on assessment, and new Skills for Behavior Change boxes. As a teacher, mentor, and researcher, Rebecca J. Donatelle knows the health issues that are important to todayrs"s readers. Through her engaging and friendly writing style, Donatelle addresses studentsrs" concerns and teaches them how to be savvy and critical consumers of health information.Access to Healthprovides hands-on practical tools that help readers make healthy changes in their lives. Promoting Health Behavior Change, Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well, Managing Stress: Coping with Lifers"s Challenges, Violence and Abuse: Creating Health Environments, Healthy Relationships: Communicating Effectively with Friends, Family, and Significant Others, Sexuality: Choices in Sexual Behavior, Reproductive Choices: Making Responsible Decisions, Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health, Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance, Personal Fitness: Improving Health Through Exercise, Addictions and Addictive Behavior: Threats to Wellness, Drinking Resonsibly: A Lifestyle Challenge on Campus, Tobacco and Caffeine: Daily Pleasures, Daily Challenges, Illicit Drugs: Use Misuse, and Abuse, Cardiovascular Disease: Reducing Your Risk, Cancer: Reducing Your Risk, Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Risks and Responsibilities, Noninfectious Conditions: The Modern Maladies, Lifers"s Transitions: The Aging Process, Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, Consumerism: Selecting Health Care Products and Services, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices and Responsibilities for Healthwise Consumers.Intended for those interested in learning the basics of health

Table of Contents

Promoting Healthy Behavior Change

Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well

Managing Stress: Coping with Life's Challenges

Violence and Abuse: Creating Healthy, Safe Environments

Healthy Relationships: Communicating Effectively with Friends, Family, and Significant Others

Sexuality: Choices in Sexual Behavior

Reproductive Choices: Making Responsible Decisions

Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health

Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance

Personal Fitness: Improving Health Through Exercise

Addictions and Addictive Behavior: Threats to Wellness

Drinking Responsibly: A Lifestyle Challenge on Campus

Tobacco and Caffeine: Daily Pleasures, Daily Challenges

Drugs: Use, Misuse, and Abuse

Cardiovascular Disease: Reducing Your Risk

Cancer: Reducing Your Risk

Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Risks and Responsibilities

Noninfectious Ailments: The Modern Maladies

Life's Transitions: The Aging Process

Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

Savvy Health Care Consumerism: Selecting Products and Services

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices and Responsibilities for Healthwise Consumers

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