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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.