Access to Health, Green Edition: International Edition
Autor Rebecca J. Donatelleen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2009
As a teacher, mentor, and researcher, Rebecca J. Donatelle knows the health issues that are important to today’s students. Through her engaging and friendly writing style, Donatelle addresses students’ concerns and teaches them how to be savvy and critical consumers of health information. Access to Health provides hands-on practical tools that help students make healthy changes in their lives.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780321611680
ISBN-10: 0321611683
Pagini: 784
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 mm
Greutate: 1.58 kg
Ediția:11Nouă
Editura: Pearson Education
Colecția Pearson Education
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
ISBN-10: 0321611683
Pagini: 784
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 mm
Greutate: 1.58 kg
Ediția:11Nouă
Editura: Pearson Education
Colecția Pearson Education
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
Cuprins
1. Promoting Healthy Behavior Change
2. Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well
3. Managing Stress: Coping with Life’s Challenges
4. Violence and Abuse: Creating Healthy, Safe Environments
5. Healthy Relationships: Communicating Effectively with Friends, Family, and Significant Others
6. Sexuality: Choices in Sexual Behavior
7. Reproductive Choices: Making Responsible Decisions
8. Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health
9. Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance
10. Personal Fitness: Improving Health Through Exercise
11. Addictions and Addictive Behavior: Threats to Wellness
12. Drinking Responsibly: A Lifestyle Challenge on Campus
13. Tobacco and Caffeine: Daily Pleasures, Daily Challenges
14. Drugs: Use, Misuse, and Abuse
15. Cardiovascular Disease: Reducing Your Risk
16. Cancer: Reducing Your Risk
17. Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Risks and Responsibilities
18. Noninfectious Ailments: The Modern Maladies
19. Life’s Transitions: The Aging Process
20. Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
21. Savvy Health Care Consumerism: Selecting Products and Services
22. Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices and Responsibilities for Healthwise Consumers
2. Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well
3. Managing Stress: Coping with Life’s Challenges
4. Violence and Abuse: Creating Healthy, Safe Environments
5. Healthy Relationships: Communicating Effectively with Friends, Family, and Significant Others
6. Sexuality: Choices in Sexual Behavior
7. Reproductive Choices: Making Responsible Decisions
8. Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health
9. Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance
10. Personal Fitness: Improving Health Through Exercise
11. Addictions and Addictive Behavior: Threats to Wellness
12. Drinking Responsibly: A Lifestyle Challenge on Campus
13. Tobacco and Caffeine: Daily Pleasures, Daily Challenges
14. Drugs: Use, Misuse, and Abuse
15. Cardiovascular Disease: Reducing Your Risk
16. Cancer: Reducing Your Risk
17. Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Risks and Responsibilities
18. Noninfectious Ailments: The Modern Maladies
19. Life’s Transitions: The Aging Process
20. Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
21. Savvy Health Care Consumerism: Selecting Products and Services
22. Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices and Responsibilities for Healthwise Consumers
Notă biografică
Rebecca J. Donatelle, Ph. D.
OregonState University
Rebecca Donatelle is an Associate Professor in Public Health and is the Coordinator of Public Health Promotion and Education Programs in the College of Health and Human Sciences. She has a Ph.D. in Community Health/Health Education, a Master of Science degree in Health Education, and a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in both Health/Physical Education and English. She is also a Certified Health Education Specialist.
Becky is a highly involved, student-centered teacher and mentor for undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Public Health at Oregon State University. Although her main emphasis is in the area of Public Health Promotion and Health Education, she teaches a wide range of students from many disciplines on the Oregon State campus. Courses she teaches that are relevant to personal health include Principles of Health Behaviors, Stress and Health, Violence and Public Health, Epidemiology and Control of Chronic Diseases, Introduction to Human Disease (Communicable), and a new course on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
In addition to her varied teaching responsibilities, Becky is an active researcher in the area of health behaviors and behavior change including studies with a focus on motivating behavior change, the use of social support in facilitating behavior change, the use of community supports to assist individuals in changing high-risk behaviors, and the role of stress in health and disease.
Becky has also conducted extensive research in the area of decision-making and factors influencing the use of alternative and traditional health care providers for treatment of low back pain; illness and sick role behaviors; women’s decisions about treatment for breast cancer and cardiac rehabilitation.
Donatelle has received the Leadership Award, outstanding teacher award in her college, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Presidential Award for Promising New Research in the Smoke-Free Families National Initiative. She has been an active member of several state and national committees and task forces and continues to work to reduce risk for high risk populations, particularly women and the elderly. Donatelle has written many books, including Access to Health (Benjamin Cummings), Wellness: Choices for Health and Fitness (Thomson Publishing), and AIDS and STDs: A Global Perspective (Pearson Custom Publishing), and she has written several chapters and manuscripts for various health-related books and journals. In addition, Donatelle is a co-author on Benjamin Cummings’ upcoming personal fitness and wellness text, Get Fit, Stay Well, available August 2008.
OregonState University
Rebecca Donatelle is an Associate Professor in Public Health and is the Coordinator of Public Health Promotion and Education Programs in the College of Health and Human Sciences. She has a Ph.D. in Community Health/Health Education, a Master of Science degree in Health Education, and a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in both Health/Physical Education and English. She is also a Certified Health Education Specialist.
Becky is a highly involved, student-centered teacher and mentor for undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Public Health at Oregon State University. Although her main emphasis is in the area of Public Health Promotion and Health Education, she teaches a wide range of students from many disciplines on the Oregon State campus. Courses she teaches that are relevant to personal health include Principles of Health Behaviors, Stress and Health, Violence and Public Health, Epidemiology and Control of Chronic Diseases, Introduction to Human Disease (Communicable), and a new course on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
In addition to her varied teaching responsibilities, Becky is an active researcher in the area of health behaviors and behavior change including studies with a focus on motivating behavior change, the use of social support in facilitating behavior change, the use of community supports to assist individuals in changing high-risk behaviors, and the role of stress in health and disease.
Becky has also conducted extensive research in the area of decision-making and factors influencing the use of alternative and traditional health care providers for treatment of low back pain; illness and sick role behaviors; women’s decisions about treatment for breast cancer and cardiac rehabilitation.
Donatelle has received the Leadership Award, outstanding teacher award in her college, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Presidential Award for Promising New Research in the Smoke-Free Families National Initiative. She has been an active member of several state and national committees and task forces and continues to work to reduce risk for high risk populations, particularly women and the elderly. Donatelle has written many books, including Access to Health (Benjamin Cummings), Wellness: Choices for Health and Fitness (Thomson Publishing), and AIDS and STDs: A Global Perspective (Pearson Custom Publishing), and she has written several chapters and manuscripts for various health-related books and journals. In addition, Donatelle is a co-author on Benjamin Cummings’ upcoming personal fitness and wellness text, Get Fit, Stay Well, available August 2008.
Caracteristici
- Engage students to read and think critically:
- Chapter Opener questions touch on topics students are interested in, capture students’ attention and engage them in what they will be learning later in the chapter. Questions are repeated within the chapter, where answers can be found.
- Did You Know? figures call attention to statistics that are relevant to the lives of college students in a fun and engaging format.
- What do you think? critical thinking questions within the chapter encourage students to reflect on personal and societal issues relating to the material they have just learned.
- A rich feature box program that helps pique students interest, highlight hot topics and currency, and provide skill-building opportunities includes:
- Assess Yourself! and Make it Happen! boxes are combined in each chapter. The redesign of these features strengthens the connection between assessment and action in making a positive behavior change. Students are given specific ideas for setting a goal and making for change, encouraging them to follow through.
- Skills for Behavior Change boxes give students specific strategies for making a behavior change.
- Health in a Diverse World boxes expand discussion of health topics to diverse groups within the U.S. and around the world.
- Health Headlines boxes highlight new discoveries and research, as well as interesting new trends in the health field.
- Spotlight on Your Health boxes offer current data and information specific to college students about health trends, including potential risks and safety issues that affect students' lives.
- Women's Health/Men's Health boxes help students understand unique aspects of health for both sexes.
- Health Ethics: Conflict and Controversy boxes highlight current controversial issues in health and allow students to explore their own opinions.
- In-text pedagogical aids include chapter-opening objectives, a marginal running glossary, and an end-of-chapter “Taking Charge” section with a chapter summary, chapter review questions, discussion and reflection questions, further readings, suggested websites, and references.
- Appendix at the end of the book includes practical information on Injury Prevention and Emergency Care.
Caracteristici noi
- NEW! “Green Edition” is written, produced, and manufactured with an emphasis on environmental responsibility.
- Green Guide boxes in every chapter offer information on how students can make healthy and environmentally responsible choices relating to the chapter content.
- Printed on responsible paper using soy ink, this edition was manufactured by a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certified printer.
- Printing this book in the United States helps to lower the usage of carbon-emitting ship fuel.
- The Media Manager DVD is packaged in a new FSC certified Eco Pak that contains no plastic. It has been reduced from five CD-ROMS to one DVD, and now includes transparency masters as PDF files, eliminating the acetates entirely.
- Assessments have been moved to the end of the chapters so they won’t break up text flow.
- All Assess Yourself assessments now allow for automatic scoring online and are incorporated into the MyHealthLab anonymous self-assessment feature.
- More Skills for Behavior Change boxes increase behavior change coverage and provide more practical tips for personal change.
- The Aging chapter has been combined with the Death and Dying chapter.
- Animproved Teaching Tool Box includes new ABC News video clips, a Test Bank now incorporating Bloom’s Taxonomy, improved PowerPoint® Lectures, and a new Media Manager DVD.
- Transparency Masters are now available on the Media Manager rather than printed to stay consistent with the “Green” theme.
- A NEW! Communities Website serves instructors by offering teaching tips and ideas, as well as a forum for peers to talk to one another about health-related issues.
- More than 50 ABC News Videos Segments bring health and wellness topics to life. Created in partnership between ABC News and Pearson, 30 of these videos are © 2006 or newer. Featuring a series of topics from nutrition and stress management to substance abuse, these videos help stimulate student learning and show relevance to the real world.
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