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Health: The Basics, 13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134709680
Health: The Basics, 13th Edition, is a comprehensive textbook designed for introductory health courses. It's a go-to resource for students and educators alike, offering a detailed exploration of current health issues and controversies. This book aligns well-researched health information with real-world topics that have the greatest impact on students' lives, keeping them engaged and motivated to learn about health.
Who Uses It?
Primarily, this book is used by students and instructors in introductory health courses at the college and university levels. It's also a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding the basics of health, including professionals looking to refresh their knowledge or expand their understanding of health principles.
History and Editions
The 13th edition of Health: The Basics has been updated to address user feedback, incorporating the latest research and discussions on diversity and health equity. This edition includes new content on sleep and health, as well as mindfulness research, tools, and practices that help students incorporate mindfulness into their daily lives. The text integrates these updates to provide a more comprehensive understanding of health issues.
Author and Other Works
Rebecca J. Donatelle is the author of Health: The Basics. She is an emeritus professor at Oregon State University, known for her ability to present scientifically valid research in an engaging and accessible manner. While this is her primary work in the field, her expertise in health education has contributed significantly to the development of health education materials.
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Rebecca Donatelle has served as a faculty member in the Department of Public Health, College of Health and Human Sciences, at Oregon State University for the last two decades. In that role, she has chaired the department and been program coordinator for the Health Promotion and Health Behavior Program (bachelor’s degree, master of public health, and PhD degree programs), as well as served on over 50 national, state, regional, and university committees focused on improving student academic success and improving the public’s health. Most importantly to her, she has also taught and mentored thousands of undergraduate and graduate students.
Dr. Donatelle has a PhD in community health/health promotion and health education, with specializations in health behaviors, aging, and chronic disease prevention, from the University of Oregon; a master of science degree in health education from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse; and a bachelor of science degree from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, with majors in health/physical education and English. In recent years, Donatelle has received several professional awards for leadership, teaching, and service within the university and for her work on developing nationally ranked undergraduate and graduate programs in the health promotion/health behavior areas.
Her primary research and scholarship areas have focused on finding scientifically appropriate means of motivating behavior change among resistant populations. Specifically, her work uses incentives, social and community supports, and risk communication strategies in motivating diverse populations to change their risk behaviors. She has worked with pregnant women who smoke in an effort to motivate them to quit smoking, obese women of all ages who are at risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, prediabetic women at risk for progression to type 2 diabetes, and a wide range of other health issues and problems. Earlier research projects have focused on decision making and factors influencing the use of alternative and traditional health care providers for treatment of low back pain, illness and sick role behaviors, occupational stress and stress claims, and worksite health promotion.
More recently, through her writing she has been working to provide scientifically defensible, engaging ways to help students understand today's complex health and health care challenges, to ask the tough questions, understand that there are often no simple solutions to the myriad of issues we face both in the US and internationally. With this text in particular, she has worked to motivate students to approach their challenges in a mindful, thoughtful way; to take time to notice and to look within and outside themselves in order to really see, hear and feel the life experience to act compassionately toward self and toward others who are struggling with personal challenges. Importantly, she challenges students to ask..."How can I make the world a better place, for me.. for others, and for future generations?...to live more healthfully, and with more enthusiasm?" Whether it be working to improve personal health behaviors, help others who are struggling, or working to improve the social, political, and macro health environment, her goal is to motivate students to become more engaged and be the health change agents of the future.
In addition to her 'writing', Dr. Donatelle enjoys playing acoustic guitar, gardening, camping and socializing with friends and family, and walks with her three rambunctious Westies.
Part 1. Finding the Right Balance
1. Assessing Your Health
Focus On: Difference, Disparity, and Health: Achieving Health Equity
2. Promoting and Preserving Your Psychosocial Health
Focus On: Cultivating Your Spiritual Health
3. Managing Stress and Coping with Life’s Challenges
4. Improving Your Sleep
5. Preventing Violence and Injury
Part 2. Creating Healthy and Caring Relationships
6. Building Healthy Relationships
Focus On: Understanding Your Sexuality
7. Considering Your Reproductive Choices
Part 3. Avoiding Risks from Harmful Habits
8. Recognizing and Avoiding Addiction and Drug Abuse
9. Drinking Alcohol Responsibly and Ending Tobacco Use
Part 4. Building Healthy Lifestyles
10. Eating for a Healthier You
11. Reaching and Maintaining a Healthy Weight
Focus On: Enhancing Your Body Image
12. Improving Your Physical Fitness
Part 5. Preventing and Fighting Disease
13. Reducing Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer
Focus On: Minimizing Your Risk for Diabetes
14. Protecting Against Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections
Focus On: Reducing Risks and Coping with Chronic Diseases and Conditions
Part 6. Facing Life’s Challenges
15. Making Smart Health Care Choices
Focus On: Understanding Complementary and Integrative Health
Focus On: Aging, Death, and Dying
16. Promoting Environmental Health
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