LearnSmart Access Card for Your Health Today

by Teague, Michael; Mackenzie, Sara; Rosenthal, David

• ISBN13: 9781259281617
• ISBN10: 1259281612
• Edition: 5th
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2014-10-30
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

It’s not just Personal! Your Health Today teaches personal health from a truly inclusive and socially responsible perspective. While each of us has a unique set of individual characteristics that shape our health, other environmental factors have an impact on our well being too. Your Health Today incorporates the individual, interpersonal, and broader social factors that affect our health, acting as a guide for healthy living in college and beyond.

The student-focused features in the fifth edition of Your Health Today highlight current topics, illustrate concepts with new photos and graphs, and invite dialogues among personal health students. For every chapter, the following features serve as entry points to classroom discussion, critical thought, and practical application of health concepts to students’ lives.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Self, Family, and Community

Chapter 2: Mental Health and Stress

Chapter 3: Social Connections

Chapter 4: Sleep

Chapter 5: Nutrition

Chapter 6: Fitness

Chapter 7: Body Weight and Body Composition

Chapter 8: Body Image

Chapter 9: Alcohol and Tobacco

Chapter 10: Drugs

Chapter 11: Sexual Health

Chapter 12: Reproductive Choices

Chapter 13: Infectious Diseases

Chapter 14: Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, and Chronic Lung Diseases

Chapter 15: Cancer

Chapter 16: Injury and Violence

Personal Health Portfolio

Supplemental eBook chapters

Chapter 17: Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Chapter 18: Environmental Issues