Health: The Basics 13th Edition by Rebecca Donatelle (English) Paperback Book

Description: Health by Rebecca Donatelle For courses in personal health. A mindful approach to personal health. Health: The Basics aligns well-researched health information with current real-world topics that have the greatest impact on students lives to keep them hooked on learning and living well. The 13th Edition integrates mindfulness research, tools, and practices throughout, enabling students to incorporate mindfulness practices to help cut through the static of everyday life, to be more focused and present, and to improve academic performance. Along with new content on sleep and health, as well as diversity and health equity, Health: The Basics builds on its strengths of using the most current, scientifically valid research, examining important issues and controversies about health today, and motivating students to become actively engaged in health at all levels. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Rebecca Donatelle has served as a faculty member in the Department of Public Health, College of Health and Human Sciences, at Oregon State University for the last two decades. In that role, she has chaired the department and been program coordinator for the Health Promotion and Health Behavior Program (bachelors degree, master of public health, and PhD degree programs), as well as served on over 50 national, state, regional, and university committees focused on improving student academic success and improving the publics health. Most importantly to her, she has also taught and mentored thousands of undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Donatelle has a PhD in community health/health promotion and health education, with specialisations in health behaviours, aging, and chronic disease prevention, from the University of Oregon; a master of science degree in health education from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse; and a bachelor of science degree from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, with majors in health/physical education and English. In recent years, Donatelle has received several professional awards for leadership, teaching, and service within the university and for her work on developing nationally ranked undergraduate and graduate programs in the health promotion/health behaviour areas. Table of Contents Part 1. Finding the Right Balance1. Assessing Your HealthFocus On: Difference, Disparity, and Health: Achieving Health Equity2. Promoting and Preserving Your Psychosocial HealthFocus On: Cultivating Your Spiritual Health3. Managing Stress and Coping with Lifes Challenges4. Improving Your Sleep5. Preventing Violence and InjuryPart 2. Creating Healthy and Caring Relationships6. Building Healthy RelationshipsFocus On: Understanding Your Sexuality7. Considering Your Reproductive ChoicesPart 3. Avoiding Risks from Harmful Habits8. Recognizing and Avoiding Addiction and Drug Abuse9. Drinking Alcohol Responsibly and Ending Tobacco UsePart 4. Building Healthy Lifestyles10. Eating for a Healthier You11. Reaching and Maintaining a Healthy WeightFocus On: Enhancing Your Body Image12. Improving Your Physical FitnessPart 5. Preventing and Fighting Disease13. Reducing Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and CancerFocus On: Minimizing Your Risk for Diabetes14. Protecting Against Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted InfectionsFocus On: Reducing Risks and Coping with Chronic Diseases and ConditionsPart 6. Facing Lifes Challenges15. Making Smart Health Care ChoicesFocus On: Understanding Complementary and Integrative HealthFocus On: Aging, Death, and Dying16. Promoting Environmental Health Feature Details A print text Free shipping New Feature About the book Cover health topics with a real-world focus Mindfulness Theme, including why this topic is so important to health, how to practice it, and potential current and long-range benefits, has been added as feature boxes as well as integrated throughout the narrative and signaled by a new mindfulness icon Mindfulness and You boxes focus on mindfulness research and applications in relation to high interest topics such as sleep, technostress, mental health, sexual dysfunction, etc. Focus on Difference, Disparity and Health Equity chapter challenges students to think about issues of diversity and health equity, and the actions they can take as individuals and as a society to begin to remove barriers and promote access to health for all (Chapter 1A). Statistics, research, and information on the latest health topics, issues, and trends, has been included. Updated - Money & Health covers elements of the financial or economic world that impact personal health. Full Chapter on Sleep now has more coverage and the most recent health findings on how sleep impats our health. Updated - Health in a Diverse World expand discussion of health topics to diverse groups within the US and around the world. Encourage critical thinking and behavior change Updated - Study Plans tie all end-of-chapter material (including Chapter Review, Pop Quiz, and Think About It questions) to specific numbered Learning Outcomes and Mastering Health assets. Updated - What Do You Think? critical-thinking questions appear throughout the text, encouraging students to pause and reflect on the material theyve just read. Updated - Assess Yourself help students evaluate their health behaviors. The Your Plan for Change section within each box provides students with targeted suggestions for ways to implement change. Updated - Skills for Behavior Change focus on practical strategies students can use to improve health or reduce their risks from negative health behaviors. Updated - Points of View present a controversial health issue and explain opposing viewpoints on the issue, encouraging students to critically evaluate information and consider their own stance. Updated - Why Should I Care? now opens each chapter and addresses the relevance of health issues to students lives by presenting information on the effects poor health habits have on them in the here and now. Current content makes health relevant Updated - Tech & Health covers new technology innovations that can help students stay healthy. Updated - Chapter Learning Outcomes summarize the main competencies students will gain from each chapter and alert them to the key concepts. They are now explicitly tied to chapter sections. Focus On mini-chapters now also include learning outcomes. Updated - Health Headlines highlight new discoveries and research, as well as interesting trends in the health field. Updated - Student Health Today focus on potential health risks and safety issues relevant to college students. Updated - A running glossary in the margins defines terms where students first encounter them, emphasizing and supporting understanding of the material. Also available packaged with Mastering Health or as an easy-to-use, standalone Pearson eText Mastering(tm) is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and often improves results for each student. With a variety of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult personal health concepts. Learn more about Mastering Health. Tools for planning your course and engaging students Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules were written by instructors for instructors and are found in the Instructor Resources section. They help instructors efficiently make use of the available teaching tools for the toughest topics by providing lecture preparation, before-class assignments, in-class activities, and after-class assignments. Instructors can incorporate active learning into their course with the suggested activity ideas and clicker questions or Learning Catalytics questions. Updated - Pearson eText: Now available on smartphones and tablets. Seamlessly integrated videos, interactive self-assessments, and other rich media. Accessible (screen-reader ready). Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode. Instructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search. Instructors can hide and move chapters creating a table of contents that meets their individual course coverage. Updated - Learning Catalytics(tm) generates classroom discussion, guides your lecture, and promotes peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. Learning Catalytics is a student response tool that uses students smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking. Instructors, you can: NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint Details ISBN0134709683 Year 2018 ISBN-10 0134709683 ISBN-13 9780134709680 Format Paperback Edition 13th Imprint Pearson Subtitle The Basics Country of Publication United States DEWEY 613 Short Title Health Language English AU Release Date 2018-03-21 NZ Release Date 2018-03-21 UK Release Date 2018-03-21 Textbook 1 Place of Publication Upper Saddle River Author Rebecca Donatelle Publisher Pearson Education (US) Edition Description 13th edition Replaces 9780134183268 Replaced by 9780137467143 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Pages 584 Publication Date 2018-03-28 US Release Date 2018-03-28 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:124464474;

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