Your Health Today : Choices in a Changing Society
ISBN: 9780077228583 | 0077228588
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 11/19/2008
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This exciting new text presents personal health in the context of a changing social and cultural environment. Going beyond behavior change and individual responsibility, it offers a broadened view of health that includes the impact of family, community, and society. It's a new way of looking at health: Personal health is not only the choices we make."Choice" is another key theme inYour Health Today. Emphasizing the importance of making informed health choices, this text demonstrates how these choices affect an individual's health--for today and... MORE
| Choices in a Changing Society | |
| Health in a Changing Society | |
| Your Mind and Body2 | |
| Your Family Health History | |
| Understanding Your Genetic Inheritance3 | |
| Mental Health | |
| Creating a Balance4 | |
| Spirituality | |
| Finding Meaning in Life and Death5 | |
| Stress | |
| Managing Pressure6 | |
| Sleep | |
| Renewal and Restoration | |
| Your Lifestyle and Health7 | |
| Nutrition | |
| Healthy Food Choices8 | |
| Fitness | |
| Physical Activity for Life9 | |
| Body Weight and Body Composition | |
| Achieving a Healthy Balance10 | |
| Body Image | |
| Viewing Yourself | |
| Your Health at Risk11 | |
| Alcoho11 | |
| Responsible Approaches to Drinking12 | |
| Drugs | |
| Use, Abuse, and Control13 | |
| Tobacco | |
| The Smoking Challenge | |
| Your Relationships and Sexuality4 | |
| Relationships | |
| Connection and Communication15 | |
| Sexual Health | |
| Biology, Society, and Culture16 | |
| Reproductive Choices | |
| Contraception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth | |
| Protecting Your Health17 | |
| Infectious Diseases | |
| Prevention and Management18 | |
| Cardiovascular Disease | |
| Risks, Prevention, and Treatment19 | |
| Cancer | |
| Understanding a Complex Condition20 | |
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | |
| Health Choices in a Changing Society | |
| Challenges to Your Health21 | |
| Violence | |
| Prevention and Protection22 | |
| Injury | |
| Creating Safe Environments23 | |
| Environmental Issues | |
| Making a Difference | |
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