GORDON, EDLIN / GOLANTY, ERIC
PART I
Achieving Wellness
Chapter 1
The Definition of Health
Chapter 2
Mind-Body Communications Maintain Wellness
Chapter 3
Managing Stress: Restoring Mind-Body Harmony
Chapter 4
Mental Health
PART 2
Eating and Exercising
Toward a Healthy Lifestyle
Chapter 5
Choosing a Healthy Diet
Chapter 6
Managing a Healthy Weight
Chapter 7
Movement and Physical Activity for Health
PART 3
Building Healthy Relationships
Chapter 8
Healthy Sexuality and Intímate Relationships
Chapter 9
Understanding Pregnancy and Parenthood
Chapter 10
Fertility Control
Chapter 11
Protecting Against Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS
PART 4
Understanding and Preventing Disease
Chapter 12
Reducing Infections and Building Immunity: Knowiedge Encourages Prevention
Chapter 13
Cancer: Understading Risks and Means of Prevention
Chapter 14
Cardiovascular Diseases Understanding Risks and Measures of prevention
Chapter 15
Heredity and Disease
PART 5
Explaining Drug use and Abuse
Chapter 16
Using Drugs and Medications Responsibly
Chapter 17
Eliminating Tobacco Use
Chapter 18
Using Alcohol Responsibly
PART 6
Making Healthy Choices
Chapter 19
Making Decisions About Health Care
Chapter 20
Exploring Alternative Medicines
Chapter 21
Accidents and Injuries
PART 7
Overcoming Obstacles
Chapter 22
Understanding Aging and Dying
Chapter 23
Violence in Our Society
Chapter 24
Working Toward a Healthy Environment
The thirteenth edition of Health & Wellness explores the many facets of personal health and self-responsibility, while focusing on the basic principles of physical, mental, and spiritual health. It provides students with the tools they need to make informed health decisions that promote lifelong wellness. Written in a personal and engaging style, the Thirteen Edition of this best-selling text, encourages readers to be responsible for their own health-related behaviors and outlines how to improve overall health through nutrition, fitness, stress management, and maintaining an overall healthy lifestyle.
New and updated boxed feature topics include:
What do Indoor Tanning Beds and Cigarettes Have in Common?
Plastic Microbeads and Microfibers Pollute Oceans and Seas
Health Tips for Meeting Basic Human Needs
Throughout the text you'll find new and updated illustrations, photos, and tables highlighting important information in the chapter
Chapter 8, Healthy Sexuality and Intimate Relationships, has been revised and updated to expand on the LGBTQ community
Chapter 19, Making Decisions About Health Care, has been updated to discuss the changing health care policies
The Student Workbook, included at the back of the text, provides various new and updated health related activities
The Instructor Resources include 3000 new and updated assessment items, including: Practice Activities, Midterm, and Final. Other Instructor Resources include more than 250 slides in PowerPoint format, an updated Instructor's Manual containing Discussion Questions and Model Answers, and updated Weblinks to relevant health-related sites.
The goal of this textbook is to provide students with the information they need to understand and implement the basic principles of physical, mental, and spiritual wellness. It is ideal for courses in:
Personal Health
Health Education
Personal Wellness
Health Studies
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