Understanding Your Health
5th Edition
Published in January 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
736 pages
978-0-8151-4711-4 (ISBN)
Description
5th revised edition of a text providing students with the fundamentals of personal health while enhancing their decision-making skills, through practical, hands-on applications. Each chapter includes a Health Action Guide with behaviour change strategies. Key topics include: empowerment, time management and the addictive personality.
5th revised edition of a text providing students with the fundamentals of personal health while enhancing their decision-making skills, through practical, hands-on applications. Each chapter includes a Health Action Guide with behaviour change strategies. Key topics include: empowerment, time management and the addictive personality.
5th revised edition of a text providing students with the fundamentals of personal health while enhancing their decision-making skills, through practical, hands-on applications. Each chapter includes a Health Action Guide with behaviour change strategies. Key topics include: empowerment, time management and the addictive personality.
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Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
St Louis
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Col.ill.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8151-4711-4 (9780815147114)
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Other editions
Previous edition
Wayne A. Payne | D. Hahn
Understanding Your Health
Book
01/1995
4th Edition
Mosby
€86.95
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Content
Introduction - understanding your health. Part 1 The mind: achieving psychological well-being; coping with stress. Part 2 The body: staying physically fit; understanding nutrition and your diet; maintaining a healthy weight. Part 3 Products of addiction: living drug-free; using alcohol responsibly; rejecting tobacco use. Part 4 Diseases: reducing your risk of cardiovascular disease; reducing your risk of cancer; living with chronic conditions; preventing infectious diseases. Part 5 Sexuality: understanding your biological sexuality; understanding sexual behaviour and relationships; making reproductive choices; becoming a parent. Part 6 Consumerism and the environment: making consumer and health care decisions; caring for our environment; protecting your safety. Part 7 The life cycle: accepting dying and death.