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Health : the basics / Rebecca J. Donatelle, Oregon State University.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Pearson, [2015]Edition: 11th editionDescription: xxiv, 501 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780321910424
  • 0321910427
  • 9780321942128
  • 0321942124
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA776 .D663 2015
Contents:
Part One -- Finding the Right Balance -- 1 Accessing Your Health -- Why Health, Why Now? -- What Is Health? -- What Influences Health? -- How Can You Improve Your Health Behaviors? -- Focus on -- improving your financial health -- The Links between Health and Wealth -- Making a Budget -- Debt and Credit Basics -- Protect Against Fraud and Identity Theft -- 2 Promoting and Preserving Your Psychological Health -- What Is Psychological Health? -- Factors That Influence Psychological Health -- The Mind-Body Connection -- Strategies to Enhance Psychological Health -- When Psychological Health Deteriorates -- Mood Disorders -- Anxiety Disorders -- Personality Disorders -- Schizophrenia -- Suicide -- Giving Up on Life -- Seeking Professional Help for Psychological Problems -- Focus on -- Cultivating Your Spiritual Health -- What Is Spirituality? -- The Benefits of Spiritual Health -- What Can You Do to Focus on Your Spiritual Health? -- 3 Managing Stress and Coping with Life's Challenges -- What Is Stress? -- Your Body's Stress Response -- Lifetime Effects of Stress -- Intellectual Effects of Stress -- What Causes Stress? -- Managing Stress in College -- Focus on -- Improving Your Sleep -- Sleepless in America -- Why Do You Need to Sleep? -- What Goes on When You Sleep? -- How Much Sleep Do You Need? -- How to Get a Good Night's Sleep -- What If You Still Can't Sleep? -- 4 Preventing Violence and Injury -- Violence in the United States -- Factors Contributing to Violence -- Intentional Injuries -- Sexual Victimization -- Minimize Your Risk of Becoming a Victim of Violence -- Community Strategies for Preventing Violence -- Unintentional Injuries -- Part Two -- Creating Healthy and Caring Relationships.
10 Reaching and Maintaining a Healthy Weight -- Factors Contributing to Overweight and Obesity -- Assessing Body Weight and Body Composition -- Managing Your Weight -- Focus On -- Enhancing Your Body Image -- What Is Body Image? -- How Can I Build a More Positive Body Image? -- What Is Disordered Eating? -- Can Exercise Be Unhealthy? -- 11 Improving Your Personal Fitness -- Physical Activity for Health -- Physical Activity for Fitness and Performance -- Getting Motivated and Committing to Your Physical Fitness -- Creating Your Own Fitness Program -- Implementing Your Fitness Program -- Preventing and Treating Fitness-Related Injuries -- Part Five -- Preventing and Fighting Disease -- 12 Reducing Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer -- Cardiovascular Disease -- An Overview -- Cardiovascular Disease -- Reducing Your Risks -- Cancer -- An Overview -- What Is Cancer? -- What Causes Cancer? -- Types of Cancers -- Facing Cancer -- Focus on -- Minimising your risk for diabetes -- What Is Diabetes? -- What Are the Symptoms of Diabetes? -- How Is Diabetes Treated? -- 13 Protecting against Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections -- The Process of Infection -- Your Body's Defenses against Infection -- Types of Pathogens and the Diseases They Cause -- Sexually Transmitted Infections (STls) -- HIV/AIDS -- Focus on -- Reducing risks and coping with chronic diseases and conditions -- Chronic Lower Respiratory (Lung) Diseases -- Allergies -- The Immune System Overreacts -- Headaches -- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- Common GI Tract Problems Affecting Young Adults -- Low Back Pain -- Repetitive Motion Disorders -- Part Six -- Facing Life's Challenges.
14 Preparing for Aging, Death, And Dying -- Aging -- Theories of Aging -- Physical and Mental Changes of Aging -- Strategies for Healthy Aging -- Understanding the Final Transitions -- Dying and Death -- Coping with Loss -- Life-and-Death Decision Making -- Making Final Arrangements -- 15 Promoting Environmental Health -- The Threat of Overpopulation -- Air Pollution -- Water Pollution and Shortages -- Land Pollution -- Radiation -- Noise Pollution -- 16 Making Smart Health Care Choices -- Taking Responsibility for Your Health Care -- Choosing a Conventional Health Care Provider -- Choosing Health Products -- Health Insurance -- Issues Facing Today's Health Care System -- Focus on -- Understanding Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- Distinguishing between Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- Alternative Medical Systems -- Manipulative and Body-Based Practices -- Energy Medicine -- Mind-Body Medicine -- Dietary Products -- The Future of CAM Therapy.
5 Building Healthy Relationships and Understanding Sexuality -- Intimate Relationships -- Communicating -- A Key to Good Relationships -- Committed Relationships -- Staying Single -- Choosing Whether to Have Children -- When Relationships Falter -- Your Sexual Identity -- More Than Biology -- Sexual Anatomy and Physiology -- Expressing Your Sexuality -- Sexual Dysfunction -- Drugs and Sex -- 6 Considering Your Reproductive Choices -- Basic Principles of Birth Control -- Barrier Methods -- Hormonal Methods -- Intrauterine Contraceptives -- Emergency Contraception -- Behavioral Methods -- Surgical Methods -- Choosing a Method of Contraception -- Abortion -- Looking Ahead to Pregnancy and Parenthood -- Pregnancy -- Childbirth -- Infertility -- Part Three -- Avoiding Risks from Harmful Habits -- 7 Recognizing and Avoiding Addiction and Drug Abuse -- What Is Addiction? -- Addiction Affects Family and Friends -- Addictive Behaviors -- What Is a Drug? -- Drug Misuse and Abuse -- Common Drugs of Abuse -- Treatment and Recovery -- Addressing Drug Misuse and Abuse in the United States -- 8 Drinking Alcohol Responsibly and Ending Tobacco Use -- Alcohol -- An Overview -- Alcohol in the Body -- Alcohol and Your Health -- Drinking and Driving -- Abuse and Dependence -- Treating Alcoholism -- Tobacco Use in the United States -- Tobacco and Its Effects -- Health Hazards of Tobacco Products -- Environmental Tobacco Smoke -- Tobacco Use and Prevention Policies -- Quitting -- Part Four -- Building Healthy Lifestyles -- 9 Eating for a Healthier You -- Essential Nutrients for Health -- How Can I Eat More Healthfully? -- Food Safety -- A Growing Concern.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One -- Finding the Right Balance -- 1 Accessing Your Health -- Why Health, Why Now? -- What Is Health? -- What Influences Health? -- How Can You Improve Your Health Behaviors? -- Focus on -- improving your financial health -- The Links between Health and Wealth -- Making a Budget -- Debt and Credit Basics -- Protect Against Fraud and Identity Theft -- 2 Promoting and Preserving Your Psychological Health -- What Is Psychological Health? -- Factors That Influence Psychological Health -- The Mind-Body Connection -- Strategies to Enhance Psychological Health -- When Psychological Health Deteriorates -- Mood Disorders -- Anxiety Disorders -- Personality Disorders -- Schizophrenia -- Suicide -- Giving Up on Life -- Seeking Professional Help for Psychological Problems -- Focus on -- Cultivating Your Spiritual Health -- What Is Spirituality? -- The Benefits of Spiritual Health -- What Can You Do to Focus on Your Spiritual Health? -- 3 Managing Stress and Coping with Life's Challenges -- What Is Stress? -- Your Body's Stress Response -- Lifetime Effects of Stress -- Intellectual Effects of Stress -- What Causes Stress? -- Managing Stress in College -- Focus on -- Improving Your Sleep -- Sleepless in America -- Why Do You Need to Sleep? -- What Goes on When You Sleep? -- How Much Sleep Do You Need? -- How to Get a Good Night's Sleep -- What If You Still Can't Sleep? -- 4 Preventing Violence and Injury -- Violence in the United States -- Factors Contributing to Violence -- Intentional Injuries -- Sexual Victimization -- Minimize Your Risk of Becoming a Victim of Violence -- Community Strategies for Preventing Violence -- Unintentional Injuries -- Part Two -- Creating Healthy and Caring Relationships.

10 Reaching and Maintaining a Healthy Weight -- Factors Contributing to Overweight and Obesity -- Assessing Body Weight and Body Composition -- Managing Your Weight -- Focus On -- Enhancing Your Body Image -- What Is Body Image? -- How Can I Build a More Positive Body Image? -- What Is Disordered Eating? -- Can Exercise Be Unhealthy? -- 11 Improving Your Personal Fitness -- Physical Activity for Health -- Physical Activity for Fitness and Performance -- Getting Motivated and Committing to Your Physical Fitness -- Creating Your Own Fitness Program -- Implementing Your Fitness Program -- Preventing and Treating Fitness-Related Injuries -- Part Five -- Preventing and Fighting Disease -- 12 Reducing Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer -- Cardiovascular Disease -- An Overview -- Cardiovascular Disease -- Reducing Your Risks -- Cancer -- An Overview -- What Is Cancer? -- What Causes Cancer? -- Types of Cancers -- Facing Cancer -- Focus on -- Minimising your risk for diabetes -- What Is Diabetes? -- What Are the Symptoms of Diabetes? -- How Is Diabetes Treated? -- 13 Protecting against Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections -- The Process of Infection -- Your Body's Defenses against Infection -- Types of Pathogens and the Diseases They Cause -- Sexually Transmitted Infections (STls) -- HIV/AIDS -- Focus on -- Reducing risks and coping with chronic diseases and conditions -- Chronic Lower Respiratory (Lung) Diseases -- Allergies -- The Immune System Overreacts -- Headaches -- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- Common GI Tract Problems Affecting Young Adults -- Low Back Pain -- Repetitive Motion Disorders -- Part Six -- Facing Life's Challenges.

14 Preparing for Aging, Death, And Dying -- Aging -- Theories of Aging -- Physical and Mental Changes of Aging -- Strategies for Healthy Aging -- Understanding the Final Transitions -- Dying and Death -- Coping with Loss -- Life-and-Death Decision Making -- Making Final Arrangements -- 15 Promoting Environmental Health -- The Threat of Overpopulation -- Air Pollution -- Water Pollution and Shortages -- Land Pollution -- Radiation -- Noise Pollution -- 16 Making Smart Health Care Choices -- Taking Responsibility for Your Health Care -- Choosing a Conventional Health Care Provider -- Choosing Health Products -- Health Insurance -- Issues Facing Today's Health Care System -- Focus on -- Understanding Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- Distinguishing between Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- Alternative Medical Systems -- Manipulative and Body-Based Practices -- Energy Medicine -- Mind-Body Medicine -- Dietary Products -- The Future of CAM Therapy.

5 Building Healthy Relationships and Understanding Sexuality -- Intimate Relationships -- Communicating -- A Key to Good Relationships -- Committed Relationships -- Staying Single -- Choosing Whether to Have Children -- When Relationships Falter -- Your Sexual Identity -- More Than Biology -- Sexual Anatomy and Physiology -- Expressing Your Sexuality -- Sexual Dysfunction -- Drugs and Sex -- 6 Considering Your Reproductive Choices -- Basic Principles of Birth Control -- Barrier Methods -- Hormonal Methods -- Intrauterine Contraceptives -- Emergency Contraception -- Behavioral Methods -- Surgical Methods -- Choosing a Method of Contraception -- Abortion -- Looking Ahead to Pregnancy and Parenthood -- Pregnancy -- Childbirth -- Infertility -- Part Three -- Avoiding Risks from Harmful Habits -- 7 Recognizing and Avoiding Addiction and Drug Abuse -- What Is Addiction? -- Addiction Affects Family and Friends -- Addictive Behaviors -- What Is a Drug? -- Drug Misuse and Abuse -- Common Drugs of Abuse -- Treatment and Recovery -- Addressing Drug Misuse and Abuse in the United States -- 8 Drinking Alcohol Responsibly and Ending Tobacco Use -- Alcohol -- An Overview -- Alcohol in the Body -- Alcohol and Your Health -- Drinking and Driving -- Abuse and Dependence -- Treating Alcoholism -- Tobacco Use in the United States -- Tobacco and Its Effects -- Health Hazards of Tobacco Products -- Environmental Tobacco Smoke -- Tobacco Use and Prevention Policies -- Quitting -- Part Four -- Building Healthy Lifestyles -- 9 Eating for a Healthier You -- Essential Nutrients for Health -- How Can I Eat More Healthfully? -- Food Safety -- A Growing Concern.

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