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The Sixth Edition of Donatelle's text provides readers with the tools they need to make healthy, lifelong behavior changes, along with updated and timely coverage of health issues. Written by a health educator who knows where readers' interests lie, the new edition aims to address the health topics of primary concern to today's readers in its coverage. Promoting Healthy Behavior Change, Psychosocial Health, Managing Stress, Violence and Abuse, Healthy Relationships and Sexuality, Birth Control, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Licit and Illicit Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine, Nutrition, Managing Your Weight, Personal Fitness, Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions, Life's Transitions, Environmental Health, Consumerism, Complementary and Alternative Medicine. For college instructors and students, or anyone interested in issues relating to personal health.

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• 1 Promoting Healthy Behavior Change
• Putting Health in Perspective
• New Directions for Health
• Gender Differences and Health Status
• Improving Your Health: Benefits of Optimal Health
• Preparing for Behavior Change
• Choosing a Behavior Change Strategy
• Making Behavior Change
• Taking Charge: Managing Your Behavior-Change Strategies
• I Finding The Right Balance
• 2 Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well
• Defining Psychosocial Health
• Factors Influencing Psychosocial Health
• Enhancing Psychosocial Health
• The Mind-Body Connection
• Common Psychosocial Problems
• Suicide: Giving Up on Life
• Seeking Professional Help
• Taking Charge: Managing Your Psychosocial Health
• 3 Managing Stress: Coping with Life's Challenges
• What Is Stress?
• Stress and Your Body
• Stress and Your Health
• Sources of Stress
• Stress and the College Student
• Stress Management
• Taking Charge: Managing Stress Behaviors
• 4 Intentional and Unintentional Injuries: Staying Safe in a Violent World
• Violence in the United States
• Personal Precipitators of Violence
• Intentional Injuries
• Reducing Risks
• Unintentional Injuries
• Taking Charge: Managing Campus Safety
• II Creating Healthy And Caring Relationships
• 5 Healthy Relationships and Sexuality: Making Commitments
• Characteristics of Intimate Relationships
• Forming Intimate Relationships
• Gender Issues
• Barriers to Intimacy
• Committed Relationships
• Success in Committed Relationships
• Staying Single
• Having Children âÇ  or Not
• When Relationships Falter
• Building Better Relationships
• Your Sexual Identity
• Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology
• Expressing Your Sexuality
• Difficulties That Can Hinder Sexual Functioning
• Taking Charge: Managing Your Relationships and Sexual Behavior
• 6 Birth Control, Pregnancy, and Childbirth: Managing Your Fertility
• Methods of Fertility Management
• Abortion
• Planning a Pregnancy
• Pregnancy
• Childbirth
• Infertility
• Taking Charge: Managing Your Fertility
• III Avoiding Or Overcoming Harmful Habits
• 7 Licit and Illicit Drug Use: Understanding Addictions
• Defining Addiction
• Drug Dynamics
• Drug Use, Abuse, and Interactions
• Prescription Drugs
• Over-the-Counter Drugs
• Illicit Drugs
• Controlled Substances
• Illegal Drug Use in the United States
• Taking Charge: Managing Drug Use Behavior
• 8 Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine: Unacknowledged Addictions
• Alcohol: An Overview
• Effects of Alcohol
• Alcoholism
• Recovery
• Our Smoking Society
• Tobacco and Its Effects
• Health Hazards of Smoking
• Smokeless Tobacco
• Environmental Tobacco Smoke
• Quitting
• Caffeine
• Taking Charge: Managing Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine
• IV Building Healthy Lifestyles
• 9 Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health
• Healthy Eating
• Obtaining Essential Nutrients
• The Medicinal Value of Food
• Gender and Nutrition
• Vegetarianism
• Improved Eating for the College Student
• Food Safety
• Taking Charge: Managing Your Eating Behavior
• 10 Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance
• Body Image
• Assessing Your Body Content
• Risk Factors for Obesity
• Managing Your Weight
• Eating Disorders
• Taking Charge: Taking Control of Your Weight
• 11 Personal Fitness: Improving Your Health Through Exercise
• Benefits of Regular Physical Activity
• Improving Cardiorespiratory Fitness
• Improving Your Flexibility
• Improving Muscular Strength and Endurance
• Body Composition
• Fitness Injuries
• Planning Your Fitness Program
• Taking Charge: Managing Your Fitness Behaviors
• V Preventing And Fighting Disease
• 12 Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: Reducing Your Risks
• Understanding Your Cardiovascular System
• Types of Cardiovascular Disease
• Controlling Your Risks for Cardiovascular Disease
• Women and Cardiovascular Disease
• New Weapons against Heart Disease
• An Overview of Cancer
• What Causes Cancer?
• Types of Cancer
• Facing Cancer
• Taking Charge: Managing Your Health
• 13 Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions: Risks and Responsibilities
• Assessing Your Disease Risks
• The Pathogens: Routes of Invasion
• Your Body's Defenses: Keeping You Well
• Emerging and Resurgent Diseases
• Sexually Transmitted Infections
• HIV/AIDS
• Chronic Lung Diseases
• Neurological Disorders
• Gender-Related Disorders
• Digestion-Related Disorders
• Musculoskeletal Diseases
• Other Maladies
• Taking Charge: Managing Your Disease Risks
• VI Facing Life's Challenges
• 14 Life's Transitions: The Aging Process
• Redefining Aging
• Health Issues for an Aging Society
• Theories on Aging
• Changes in the Body and Mind
• Health Challenges of the Elderly
• Preventive Actions for Healthy Aging
• Understanding Death and Dying
• The Process of Dying
• Taking Care of Business
• Life-and-Death Decision Making
• Taking Charge: Dealing with the Aging Process
• 15 Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
• Overpopulation
• Air Pollution
• Water Pollution
• Noise Pollution
• Land Pollution
• Radiation
• Taking Charge: Managing Environmental Pollution
• 16 Consumerism: Selecting Health-Care Products and Services
• Responsible Consumerism
• Accepting Responsibility for Your Health Care
• Choices of Medical Care
• Health-Care Organizations, Programs, and Facilities
• Issues Facing Today's Health-Care System
• Third-Party Payers
• Taking Charge: Managing Your Health-Care Needs
• Appendixes
• A Injury Prevention and Emergency Care
• B Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices, New Responsibilities
• References
• Index