Health: The Basics, Second Canadian Edition, 2/E
0205317642

Rebecca J. Donatelle, Oregon State University
Lorraine G. Davis, University of Oregon
Anne J. Munroe, Sheridan College
Alex Munroe, Wilfrid Laurier University

Publisher: Prentice Hall Canada
Copyright: 2001
Format: Paper; 464 pp

ISBN-10: 0205317642
ISBN-13:9780205317646

Our Price: £72.50
Status: Not Yet Published
Estimated Availability: 15 Jul 2000

Description

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

This Canadian adaptation of a successful Health text emphasizes the essential health information necessary to develop a comprehensive understanding of health promotion and disease prevention. Like Access to Health, this text is presented from a behavioural management perspective, providing students with the practical means of assessing and managing their health behaviours. Basics maintains its thorough examination of health care in Canada and the threat of growing violence, and continues such cutting-edge approaches with the inclusion of more gender issues, injury prevention, the role of community health, and prevention strategies.
Table Of Contents
(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with Summary, Discussion Questions, and Application Exercises.)

1. Promoting Healthy Behaviour Change.

What Is Health? Gender Differences and Health Status. Improving Your Health. Preparing for Behaviour Change. Behaviour Change Techniques. Making Behaviour Change. Taking Charge: Managing Your Behaviour-Change Strategies.

I. FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE.

2. Psychosocial Health: Achieving Mental, Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Wellness.

Defining Psychosocial Health. Factors Influencing Psychosocial Health. Enhancing Psychosocial Health. When Things Go Wrong. Suicide: Giving Up on Life. Seeking Professional Help. Taking Charge: Managing Your Psychosocial Health.

3. Managing Stress: Toward Prevention and Control.

What is Stress? The General Adaptation Syndrome. Sources of Stress. Stress and the University Student. Stress Management. Taking Charge: Managing Stress Behaviours.

4. Violence and Abuse: Societal Challenges.

Violence in Canada. Violence Against Women. Sexual Victimization. Preventing Personal Assaults. Taking Charge: Managing Campus Safety.

II. CREATING HEALTH 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. Ending a Relationship. Defining Your Sexual Identity., Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology. Expressing Your Sexuality. Difficulties That Can Hinder Sexual Functioning. Taking Charge: Building Better Relationships.

6. Birth Control, Pregnancy, and Childbirth: Managing Your Fertility.

Methods of Fertility Control. Abortion. Planning a Pregnancy. Pregnancy. Childbirth. Infertility. Taking Charge: Managing Your Fertility.

III. BUILDING HEALTHY LIFESTYLES.

7. Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health.

Healthy Eating. Obtaining Essential Nutrients. Vegetarianism: Eating for Health. Improved Eating for the University Student. Food Safety: Increasing Concerns. Taking Charge: Managing Your Nutrition.

8. Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance.

Body Image. Risk Factors for Obesity. Managing Your Weight. Eating Disorders. Taking Charge: Managing Your Weight.

9. Personal Fitness: Improving Your Health Through Exercise.

Benefits of Physical Fitness. Improving Cardiovascular Endurance. Improving Flexibility. Improving Muscular Strength and Endurance. Fitness Injuries. Taking Charge: Managing Your Fitness Behaviours. Planning Your Fitness Program.

IV. AVOIDING OR OVERCOMING HARMFUL HABITS.

10. Licit and Illicit Drug Use: Understanding Addictions.

Defining Addiction. Drug Dynamics. Drug Use, Abuse, and Interactions. Prescription Drugs. Over-the-Counter (OTC) Drugs. Illicit Drugs. Controlled Substances. Taking Charge: Managing Drug Use Behaviour.

11. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine: Unacknowledged Additions.

Alcohol: An Overview. Physiological and Behavioural Effects of Alcohol. Alcoholism. Recovery. Smoking. Tobacco and Its Effects. Smoking— A Learned Behaviour. Financing the Health Costs of Smoking. Health Hazards of Smoking. Smokeless Tobacco. Environmental Tobacco Smoke. Quitting. Caffeine. Taking Charge: Managing Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine.

V. PREVENTING AND FIGHTING DISEASE.

12. Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: Reducing Your Risks.

Cardiovascular Diseases. Understanding Your Cardiovascular System. Types of Cardiovascular Disease. Controlling Your Risks for Cardiovascular Diseases. 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.

Infectious Disease Risk Factors. The Pathogens: Routes of Invasion. Your Body's Defenses: Keeping You Well. Sexually Transmitted Infections. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Noninfectious Diseases. Respiratory Disorders. Neurological Disorders. Sex-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. Who Are the Elderly? Trends. Theories on Aging. Changes in the Body and Mind. Health Challenges of the Elderly. Understanding Death and Dying. The Process of Dying. Taking Care of Business. Life-and-Death Decision Making. Taking Charge: The Living Will.

15. Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally.

Overpopulation. Air Pollution. Water Pollution. Noise Pollution. Land Pollution. Radiation. Taking Charge: Managing Environmental Pollution. Food Quality.

16. Consumerism: Utilizing Health-Care Products and Services.

Making Informed Health Care Choices. Choices of Medical Care. Promises and Problems of Our Health-Care System. Taking Charge: Managing Your Health-Care Needs.

Notes.

Index.

Credits.

Features
  • NEW - Consumer Health Box - appears in each chapter and focuses on health issues as they relate to consumer skills.

    • Broadens scope of awareness about consumer health and contemporary consumer issues.

  • NEW - CBC Video Segments - current information from such CBC series as The Nature of Things and The Health Show compliment the text.

    • Enhances learning by bringing to life practical applications and issues.

  • NEW - PowerPoint Slides.

    • Over 400 slides provide indispensable teaching tool for instructors.

  • Canadian data updated throughout - current statistics, policy decisions and reforms to Health Care System in Canada.

    • Maintains currency and relevance of information to lives of Canadian students.

  • Developing health behaviours through wise decision making is introduced in Chapter 1 and reinforced at various points of every chapter. From the “What Do You Think” scenario at the beginning of each chapter and the reflective questions throughout the book to the boxed features and the “Taking Charge” section at the end of each chapter, the book stimulates critical thinking about personal health.
  • Multicultural Perspective boxes broaden the student's outlook to include healthy behaviours in Canada as well as for other cultures and countries.
  • Building Communication Skills boxes emphasize the importance of developing communication skills as a tool to better health.
  • Rate Yourself self-assessment boxes help students examine their own health practices and attitudes. These assessments encourage students to identify strategies for improving their health where necessary.
  • Emphasis on building health skills is integrated throughout the text in “Skills for Behaviour Change” and “Building Communication Skills” boxes in the “Taking Charge” section.
  • Valuable pedagogical aids including chapter opening critical thinking; chapter objectives; running critical thinking questions; running glossary of key terms; chapter reviews that include summaries of key concepts, discussion questions, and application exercises; boxed features; and a Taking Charge section that provides a critical review of information.

    • Stimulates critical thinking skills and facilitates further study and research.

  • Self-scoring quiz based on Canadian Health Promotion Survey (Ch.1).

    • Enhances learning.

  • DECIDE and Stages of Change models of decision making provide students with processes for making healthful decisions.

    • Provides students with useful tools they can take beyond the classroom.

  • Coverage of gender issues in health is integrated throughout the book. Topics include gender bias in mental health treatment, women and heart disease, and how gender roles may affect a person's ultimate health status.

    • Provides a more balanced and analytical perspective.