Isbn: 9780030940729 - health styles: decisions for living well: decisions for wellness (1 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. "Health Styles" incorporates the contemporary health concerns identified in "Healthy People 2000" and emphasises individual responsibility for health decisions and behaviours. This new health and wellness text for the major and non-major, written by a professor of health education and a health journalist, offers comprehensive coverage of wellness and health risks and behaviors in a lively, personable, non-technical style. Special attention is paid to high-interest issues such as the environment, communication, consumerism, multiculturalism, and practical advice for responsible health choices. Engaging boxes, functional photography, self-assessment activities, and case studies keep students interested and involved. Features: * Unique coverage of health behaviors and risks related to violence, including suicide, rape, murder, and abuse, are examined in Chapter 11, "The Risks of Violence in Your Life", which offers practical advice and emphasizes minimizing the many potential risks facing today's college students. * "Express Your Health" boxes emphasize the benefits of and provide ways of communicating with others about heath issues such as smoking and serious illnesses such as cancer. * "Making Healthy Decisions" boxes offer practical guidelines for health-related decision-making. * "Your Environmental Neighborhood" boxes throughout the text reinforces the relationship of the environment to the personal and community health, and feature topics such as seasonal affective disorder, the sun and skin cancer, and sick building syndrome.…