Health Care: Access to Health - Calvary University

Calvary University

Faculty of Health Care

Access to Health

Edition 8

Rebecca J. Donatelle
0-8053-5564-2
Paperback
736 pages
2004

Brief Description

Teacher and mentor Rebecca J. Donatelle helps students make wise decisions about their health using the most current information available. Along with insightful self-assessments and behavior change commitments, Access to Health , Eighth Edition also includes a comprehensive supplements package.

Rebecca J. Donatelle is a highly involved teacher and student advisor, as well as an active researcher of health behaviors who knows the interests, fads, and fears of today's students. With this in mind, she has crafted the definitive text that speaks directly to students through its friendly and engaging style. Access to Health is comprehensive, readable, and generously illustrated, making it the text of choice for today's health and wellness instructors. Students are drawn in by Donatelle's accessible approach and interactive supplements.

The Eighth Edition includes the latest research and statistics, as well as hot topics of interest and importance to students. The material has been streamlined to keep the presentation upbeat and lively. New supplements make classroom instruction easier, while practical tools enhance the behavior change approach of the main text and provide students with motivation for healthy living.

Features

In-text pedagogical aids include chapter-opening objectives, “What Do You Think?” scenarios and critical thinking review questions, a running marginal glossary, an end-of-chapter “Taking Charge” section with Checklist for Change suggestions, a chapter summary, discussion questions, application exercises, further readings, and suggested websites.
Assess Yourself boxes help students evaluate their health behaviors and consider positive changes. Students' assessment and management of personal health behaviors within the context of current public and community health issues is a central theme stressed throughout the text.
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.
New Horizons in Health boxes highlight new discoveries and research, as well as interesting new trends in the health field.
Reality Check boxes offer current data 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. Complementary and alternative medicine is covered in a full chapter to provide clear direction and answers for the health consumer.
Spiritual health information has been provided to meet student interest in the topic.

New to this Edition

Coverage of the latest trends affecting students' health has been enhanced, including “body art” (tattoos and piercings), fast food, club drugs, alternative medicine, and safer sex.
Improved personal assessments help students evaluate short- and long-term health issues of particular interest on college campuses.
A Behavior Change Contract encourages students to bring about positive long-term behavior change in their own health habits over the course of the semester, thereby stimulating more active involvement in the class while gaining health benefits. In addition, a long-term behavior change contract encourages students to maintain their healthy habits.
The text includes the latest statistics on topics such as the leading causes of death in the U.S., changes in crime rates, and the prevalence of obesity in the U.S.
Additional information in the Psychosocial Health chapter includes spiritual themes, strategies for conflict resolution, dealing with self-injurious (cutting) behavior, updated suicide statistics, and a new table for signs of depression that can help students avoid psychological problems.
A revised discussion of stress management helps students find better ways to reduce stress in their lives. The text considers popular techniques for meditation and spiritual practices to manage stress in all its forms—including technostress and post-traumatic stress disorder—and offers a self-assessment focusing on stress issues relevant to students.
Coverage of violence and abuse has been enhanced, including domestic violence, marital rape and the prevalence of rape, bias and hate crimes, updated crime rates, the financial costs of crime, and bioterrorism.
The Nutrition chapter has been extensively revised to include such topics as the difference between food allergies and food intolerances, using food labels and the Food Guide Pyramid, the importance of water in a healthy diet, and the meaning of the new “organic” label.
A fresh new design makes the text accessible and modern in appearance.
Art and photos have been updated throughout the book. The anatomical art has been thoroughly revised and redrawn.
New supplements make teaching easier, including an Instructor's Resource Binder, Take Charge of Your Health Worksheets, and Discovery Health Channel Health and Wellness Lecture Launcher Videos. Existing supplements have been revised to include changes to the text.

Appropriate Courses

Introduction to Health, Personal Health, and Health and Wellness courses offered in most Health and/or Physical Education departments.

I. FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE.
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 Environments.
II. CREATING HEALTHY AND CARING RELATIONSHIPS.
5. Healthy Relationships: Communicating Effectively with Friends, Family, and Significant Others.
6. Sexuality: Choices in Sexual Behavior.
7. Reproductive Choices: Making Responsible Decisions.
III. CHOOSING A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE.
8. Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health.
9. Managing Your Weight.
10. Personal Fitness: Improving Health Through Exercise.
IV. AVOIDING RISKS FROM HARMFUL HABITS.
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. Illicit Drugs: Use, Misuse, and Abuse.
V. PREVENTING AND FIGHTING DISEASE.
15. Cardiovascular Disease: Reducing Your Risk.
16. Cancer: Reducing Your Risk.
17. Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Risks and Responsibilities.
18. Noninfectious Conditions: The Modern Maladies.
VI. FACING LIFE'S CHALLENGES.
19. Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Process.
20. Dying and Death: The Final Transition.
21. Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally.
22. Consumerism: Selecting Health Care Products and Services.
23. Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices and Responsibilities for Healthwise Consumers.
Appendix A: Injury Prevention and Emergency Care.
Appendix B: Nutritive Value of Selected Foods.
Glossary.
References.
Index.

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