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Essential Concepts for Healthy Living Update, Fifth Edition

Author(s): Sandra Alters, PhD
Wendy Schiff, MS, RD
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763789756
  • Paperback    628 pages      © 2011
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Overview

Essential Concepts for Healthy Living provides students with a clear and concise introduction to the latest scientific and medical research in personal health. With its unique focus on critical thinking and analysis of health-related behaviors and attitudes, this text enhances students’ understanding of their own health needs and presents the scientific background necessary for students to think critically about the reliability of health-related information they encounter in the media.

The Fifth Edition Update provides the most current data on a comprehensive array of health and wellness topics and issues. In addition to all of the statistical updates, the text now includes a built-in critical thinking workbook that allows students to easily assess and improve their health-related behaviors and attitudes.

The Fifth Edition Update includes the latest information on:

• Health Care Costs
• Binge Drinking
• Alternative Medical Therapies
• Mental Illness and Depression
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Eating Disorders
• Physical Activity and Health
• Cervical and Prostate Cancer
• Drug Use and Abuse
• And much more!

ShowKey Features

  • Applying Concepts for Healthy Living: A Critical-Thinking Workbook
    • Now available at the back of the book, this Critical-Thinking Workbook contains Self-Assessments and Changing Health Habits activities, which help students assess and improve their health-related behaviors and attitudes.
  • Healthy Living Practices
    • Unique to this text, these short lists of bulleted statements throughout the chapters summarize key points and concisely state concrete yet simple actions students can take to improve their own health. Managing Your Health These features contain short essays or lists of tips that focus on ways to live a healthier life.
  • Consumer Health
    • These commentaries and tips provide practical information and suggestions to help students become more careful consumers of health-related goods and services. In addition to being highlighted in this feature, consumer topics are integrated throughout the book and are the subject of scrutiny in the “Analyzing Health-Related Information” activities.
  • Diversity in Health Essays
    • These features cultivate an interest in and an appreciation for the health status and practices of various ethnic, cultural, and racial groups in the United States, as well as people around the world. Although the diversity essays focus specifically on multiculturalism, additional multicultural information is woven throughout the book.
  • Analyzing Health-Related Information
    • This innovative feature teaches students the critical-thinking skill of analysis. Students use this skill and the model provided to determine the reliability of health-related information in articles, advertisements, Web sites, and other sources. Learning such a skill and practicing it helps students become knowledgeable consumers of health-related information and products.
  • Applying What You Have Learned
    • This unique end-of-chapter feature is a series of questions and activities that require critical-thinking—application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Each question is labeled as to what type of critical-thinking is required, and a key provides a brief explanation of the process students need to follow to complete the question or activity.
  • Reflecting on Your Health
    • This end-of-chapter journal-writing activity stimulates students to consider what they have learned and to understand how their thoughts and feelings about health might have changed as a result of their new knowledge. Compiling these activities and reviewing them from time to time, especially at the end of the semester, will offer tangible evidence of changes and psychological and intellectual growth.

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ShowTable of Contents

1  Health: The Foundation for Life
2  Psychological Health
3  Stress and Its Management
4  Violence and Abuse
5  Reproductive Health
6  Relationships and Sexuality
7  Drug Use and Abuse
8  Alcohol and Tobacco
9  Nutrition
10  Body Weight and Its Management
11  Physical Fitness
12  Cardiovascular Health
13  Cancer
14  Infection, Immunity, and Noninfectious Disease
15  Aging, Dying, and Death
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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Sandra Alters, PhD

Sandra Alters holds a PhD degree in Science Education and a Master’s degree in biology. Formerly of the University of Missouri–St. Louis and Salem State College (Massachusetts), Dr. Alters has authored several textbooks in addition to Essential Concepts for Healthy Living, a laboratory manual, a children’s science book, many articles in professional literature, and over sixty chapters and features in books. Additionally, she has written the instructional design for a variety of science-related software products for students. With twenty-five years of teaching experience, Dr. Alters brings her educational expertise, background in biology and human biology, and extensive writing experience to the author team.

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Wendy Schiff, MS, RD

Wendy Schiff holds a Master’s degree in Human Nutrition. She is a former Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Physical Education at the St. Louis Community College-Meramec Campus. Ms. Schiff has authored a college health textbook, two health education manuals, a low-calorie cookbook, and published articles in professional journals. She has served as a consulting nutritionist, reviewer of health education and nutrition materials, and a freelance health essayist. With her educational background in health and her experience teaching college health, nutrition, and sexuality classes, Ms. Schiff complements Dr. Alters’ expertise in biological sciences and science education.

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ShowAppropriate Courses

  • Personal Health
  • Principles of Personal Health
  • Healthy Living
  • Health Education
  • Personal Wellness
  • Health Studies
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      Instructor's Toolkit

      ISBN-13: 9780763757540

      Contains PowerPoint Presentations, Image Bank, Computerized TestBank, Annotated Lecture Outlines, Warm-Up Activities, and Transparency Masters.  Everything instructors need for their course in one place!

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      The Human Condition Learning Course

      ISBN-13: 9780763761998

      The Human Condition distance learning course created by INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications offers teachers and learners a closer look at health and health care issues – from weight management to cardiovascular diseases, and from the latest HIV/AIDS treatment to changes in health care delivery systems. The course includes 26 half-hour programs, e-content, the Essential Concepts for Healthy Living textbook, The Human Condition Study Guide, and a faculty guide with exam bank. The series has been updated to include the USDA MyPyramid and the 2005 Dietary Guidelines. For more information please visit INTELECOM.

      The Human Condition Study Guide to accompany Essential Concepts for Healthy Living
      Integrating the textbook and The Human Condition Distance Learning Course, this study guide includes learning objectives, lesson overviews, assignments, key terms, video viewing questions, self-tests, and expanded analysis questions.

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      Instructor Resources
      Lecture Outlines
      PowerPoint Slides
      Computerized TestBank
      Transparency Masters
      Warm-Up Exercises

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      Crossword Puzzles
      Interactive Glossary
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      To access these resources click here: http://health.jbpub.com/healthyliving/5e

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      The Human Condition Study Guide

      ISBN-13: 9780763763763 ISBN-10: 0763763764

      The Human Condition Study Guide integrates the textbook and The Human Condition Distance Learning Course and includes learning objectives, lesson overviews, assignments, key terms, video viewing questions, self-tests, and expanded analysis questions.

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