Focus on Health
3rd Edition
Published on 1. October 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-8151-4198-3 (ISBN)
Description
This edition of the text introducing all aspects of personal health includes six dimensions of health and five developmental tasks for the young adult. It places emphasis on behaviour change in the adolescent and also includes a new chapter on violence and personal safety. Personal assessment inventories are also included in every chapter allowing the student to evaluate content related aspects of their own health. The text is accompanied by an instructor's manual with testbank, computerized testbank and transparencies.
This edition of the text introducing all aspects of personal health includes six dimensions of health and five developmental tasks for the young adult. It places emphasis on behaviour change in the adolescent and also includes a new chapter on violence and personal safety. Personal assessment inventories are also included in every chapter allowing the student to evaluate content related aspects of their own health. The text is accompanied by an instructor's manual with testbank, computerized testbank and transparencies.
This edition of the text introducing all aspects of personal health includes six dimensions of health and five developmental tasks for the young adult. It places emphasis on behaviour change in the adolescent and also includes a new chapter on violence and personal safety. Personal assessment inventories are also included in every chapter allowing the student to evaluate content related aspects of their own health. The text is accompanied by an instructor's manual with testbank, computerized testbank and transparencies.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
St Louis
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
200 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 221 mm
Weight
1160 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8151-4198-3 (9780815141983)
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Dale Hahn | Wayne Payne
Focus on Health
Book
09/1998
4th Edition
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
€40.91
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Content
Shaping your health; the mind; achieving emotional maturity; managing stress; the body; becoming physically fit; understanding nutrition and your diet; maintaining a healthy weight; addictive substances; choosing a drug-free lifestyle; taking control of alcohol abuse; rejecting tobacco abuse; diseases; reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease; living with cancer and chronic conditions; preventing infectious diseases; sexuality; understanding sexuality; managing fertility; consumerism and the environment; making consumer and health care decisions; promoting personal safety; controlling environmental influences; the ageing process; understanding ageing, death and dying.