Synopses & Reviews
Key Benefit: The Ninth Edition of Donatelle’s book is a Green Edition, written, produced and manufactured with an emphasis on environmental responsibility. The book presents readers with Ideas for Thriving, focusing on the concept of wellness and on developing positive behaviors that contribute not just to health, but also to well-being and thriving. This current, user-friendly book holds readers’ interest by covering health topics of primary concern to them, and provides readers with the tools they need to make healthy, lifelong behavior changes and become savvy consumers of health information.
Now enhanced with an even more comprehensive package of support materials, this edition makes teaching and learning personal health easier than ever. The Green Edition includes an environmental feature; new mini-chapters; a brand new art program with a new, lively design; and additional content on behavior change; in addition to a robust and expanded supplements package. The Teaching Tool Box, the Instructor Resource DVD with 30 new ABC News videos, the revamped website, the anonymous MyHealthLab self-assessments, which speak to the gradebook, the updated Test Bank utilizing Bloom’s Taxonomy to categorize questions, and the Teaching Health & Wellness Community website all help professors teach and assess readers better and more easily than ever before.
Key Topics: The Basics of Healthy Change, Psychosocial Health, Managing Your Stress, Your Sleep, Violence and Abuse, Healthy Relationships and Sexuality, Your Reproductive Choices, Addiction and Drug Use, Alcohol and Tobacco, Nutrition and You, Managing Your Weight, Your Body Image, Personal Fitness, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer, Your Risk for Diabetes, Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions, Aging, Death, and Dying, Environmental Health, Your Spirituality, Savvy Health Care Consumerism,
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Market: Intended for readers interested in learning the basics of health
Synopsis
It’s current, it’s accurate, it’s user-friendly, and it’s FUN!
With an emphasis on environmental responsibility, the new Health: The Basics, Green Edition features compelling graphics and relatable content that bring health topics to life, keeping you hooked on learning and living well.
Now enhanced with an even more comprehensive package of student support materials, this edition makes learning personal health easier than ever. The Green Edition includes an environmental feature; new mini-chapters; a brand new art program with a new, lively design; and additional content on behavior change; in addition to a robust and expanded supplements package.
About the Author
Rebecca J. Donatelle, Ph. D.
Oregon State University
Rebecca Donatelle is an Associate Professor in Public Health and is the Coordinator of Public Health Promotion and Education Programs in the College of Health and Human Sciences. She has a Ph.D. 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.
Becky is a highly involved, student-centered teacher and mentor for undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Public Health at Oregon State University. Although her main emphasis is in the area of Public Health Promotion and Health Education, she teaches a wide range of students from many disciplines on the Oregon State campus. Courses she teaches that are relevant to personal health include Principles of Health Behaviors, Stress and Health, Violence and Public Health, Epidemiology and Control of Chronic Diseases, Introduction to Human Disease (Communicable), and a new course on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
In addition to her varied teaching responsibilities, Becky is an active researcher in the area of health behaviors and behavior change including studies with a focus on motivating behavior change, the use of social support in facilitating behavior change, the use of community supports to assist individuals in changing high-risk behaviors, and the role of stress in health and disease.
Becky has also conducted extensive research in the area of 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; women’s decisions about treatment for breast cancer and cardiac rehabilitation.
Donatelle has 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. She has been an active member of several state and national committees and task forces and continues to work to reduce risk for high risk populations, particularly women and the elderly. Donatelle has written many books, including Access to Health (Benjamin Cummings), Wellness: Choices for Health and Fitness (Thomson Publishing), and AIDS and STDs: A Global Perspective (Pearson Custom Publishing), and she has written several chapters and manuscripts for various health-related books and journals. In addition, Donatelle is a co-author on Benjamin Cummings’ newest personal fitness and wellness text, Get Fit, Stay Well!
Table of Contents
1. Promoting Healthy Behavior Change
2. Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well
3. Managing Stress: Coping with Life’s Challenges
4. Preventing Violence and Abuse: Creating Healthy Environments
5. Healthy Relationships and Sexuality: Making Commitments
6. Birth Control, Pregnancy, and Childbirth: Managing Your Fertility
7. Addictive Behaviors, Licit and Illicit Drugs: Use, Misuse, and Abuse
8. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine: Daily Pleasures, Daily Challenges
9. Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health
10. Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance
11. Personal Fitness: Improving Health through Exercise
12. Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, and Cancer: Reducing Your Risk
13. Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions: Risks and Responsibilities
14. Life’s Transitions: The Aging Process
15. Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
16. Consumerism: Selecting Health Care Products and Services
17. Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices and Responsibilities for Healthwise Consumers
Answers to Chapter Review Questions
Preventing Injuries and Providing Emergency Care
Nutritive Value of Selected Foods and Fast Foods
Behavior Change Contract
HSample Behavior Change Contract
Glossary
Index