Personal Health Perspectives and Lifestyles ISBN 9780495111573

Description :

PERSONAL HEALTH: PERSPECTIVES AND LIFESTYLES, Fourth Edition emphasizes the individual's personal responsibility for wellness by presenting general (core) and current health information to guide decision making. The focus of the text is to present health topics, including cultural, racial, ethnic, and gender diversity issues, identify risk factors, and give you useful and sensible suggestions to reduce the risk for preventable diseases and conditions in order to achieve optimal levels of wellness for yourself, your friends, and your family.

Contents :

1.Introduction to Personal Health

2.Personality and Emotional Health

3.Stress and Health

4.Personal Relationships

5.Human Sexuality Contraception and Reproduction

6.Communicable Diseases

7.Noncommunicable Diseases

8.Cardiovascular Disease

9.The Basics of Nutrition

10. Weight Management

11.Physical Activity and Health

12. Psychoactive Drugs and Medications

13.Alcohol and Tobacco

14.Aging Dying and Death

15.Consumerism and Environmental Health

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