My Health

For college courses in Personal Health (Health & Kinesiology).

What Students Need to Know, Efficiently Organized for Today's Busy Students
The Second Edition of My Health: The MasteringHealth Edition delivers the latest in personal health with tools that help students tackle what they need to know, within their own time constraints. The book's modular organization allows students to focus on learning the core material they need to know, while Learning Outcomes and review questions provide them with immediate feedback on what they've learned and allow them to customize their study plan. Meanwhile, a concise text and a comprehensive supplements package allow instructors to zero in on what students need to know-without the jargon-making personal health courses more rewarding.

The MasteringHealth Edition is designed to work with MasteringHealth to provide students with concrete learning goals, giving instructors an invaluable tool for assessing students' progress. The book builds on the power of MasteringHealth by tying its learning goals to a variety of interactive activities and assets.

Also Available with MasteringHealth^TM
This title is also available with MasteringHealth-an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.

Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MasteringHealth, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

Sommario

CONTENTS
1.  Healthy Change
2.  Psychosocial Health
3.  Stress
4.  Relationships and Sexuality
5.  Reproductive Choices
6.  Addiction and Drug Abuse
7.  Alcohol and Tobacco
8.  Nutrition
9.  Weight Management and Body Image
10.   Fitness
11.   CVD, Cancer, and Diabetes
12.   Infectious Conditions
13.   Violence and Unintentional Injuries
14.   Environmental Health
15.   Consumerism and Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Info autore

Rebecca Donatelle is a professor emeritus in Public Health and was the Coordinator of the Public Health Promotion and Education Programs in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University. She has a PhD in Community Health/Health Education, a Master of Science degree in Health Education, and a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in both Health/Physical Education and English. She is also a Certified Health Education Specialist. In addition to her varied teaching responsibilities, Becky has been an active researcher in the area of health behaviors and behavior change. She received the Leadership Award, outstanding teacher award in her college, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Presidential Award for Promising New Research in the Smoke-Free Families National Initiative.

Riassunto

For college courses in Personal Health (Health & Kinesiology).
 
What Students Need to Know, Efficiently Organized for Today’s Busy Students
The Second Edition of My Health: The MasteringHealth Edition delivers the latest in personal health with tools that help students tackle what they need to know, within their own time constraints. The book’s modular organization allows students to focus on learning the core material they need to know, while Learning Outcomes and review questions provide them with immediate feedback on what they’ve learned and allow them to customize their study plan. Meanwhile, a concise text and a comprehensive supplements package allow instructors to zero in on what students need to know–without the jargon–making personal health courses more rewarding.
 
The MasteringHealth Edition is designed to work with MasteringHealth to provide students with concrete learning goals, giving instructors an invaluable tool for assessing students’ progress. The book builds on the power of MasteringHealth by tying its learning goals to a variety of interactive activities and assets.
 
Also Available with MasteringHealth^TM
This title is also available with MasteringHealth–an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.

Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MasteringHealth, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.
 

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rebecca J. Donatelle
• Editore: Pearson Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9780133865646
• ISBN: 978-0-13-386564-6
• Pagine: 464
• Peso: 1070 g
• Serie: Benjamin Cummin; Benjamin Cummin
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali