Essential Concepts For Healthy Living / Edition 6

by Sandra Alters, Wendy Schiff

Overview

Thoroughly revised and updated, Essential Concepts for Healthy Living, Sixth Edition provides students with a clear and concise introduction to the latest scientific and medical research in personal health. With its unique focus on critical thinking and analysis of health-related behaviors and attitudes, this text enhances students’ understanding of their own health needs and presents the scientific background necessary for students to think critically about the reliability of health-related information they encounter in the media.

New to the Sixth Edition
Updated Design - interior layout has been upgraded and modernized
Includes Healthy People 2020 and MyPlate
New sections added - Transgender, Anti-Drug Vaccines, Alcohol-related injury deaths in college students, Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, Celiac Disease, Consumer Health: CAM Products and Colds, and more

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449651930
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	02/21/2012
Pages:	698
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

ChapterChapter 1 Health: The Foundation for Life
ChapterChapter 2 Psychological Health
ChapterChapter 3 Stress and Its Management
ChapterChapter 4 Violence and Abuse
ChapterChapter 5 Reproductive Health
ChapterChapter 6 Relationships and Sexuality
ChapterChapter 7 Drug Use and Abuse
ChapterChapter 8 Alcohol and Tobacco
ChapterChapter 9 Nutrition
ChapterChapter 10 Body Weight and Its Management
ChapterChapter 11 Physical Fitness
ChapterChapter 12 Cardiovascular Health
ChapterChapter 13 Cancer
ChapterChapter 14 Infection, Immunity, and Noninfectious Disease
ChapterChapter 15 Aging, Dying, and Death
ChapterChapter 16 Environmental Health
AppendixA Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicators
AppendixB Injury Prevention and Emergency Care
AppendixC Dietary Reference Intakes for Certain Nutrients
AppendixD Choose MyPlate
AppendixE Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide