Focus on Health – 11th Edition (Ebook PDF)

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Focus on Health – 11th Edition (Ebook PDF)

Authors: by Dale Hahn (Author), Wayne Payne (Author), Ellen Lucas (Author)

Focus on Health offers an exciting and practical approach to the teaching of the traditional content areas of personal health. Its two key themes – the six dimensions of health and the five developmental tasks – help students apply the text’s content to their own lives, by improving their decision-making skills. The strength of the Focus on Health narrative includes its appeal to both traditional and non-traditional students, particularly the special attention it pays to students over age 25 who have returned to college. In addition, among its many health assessment activities, Focus on Health includes one of the most comprehensive health assessments found in any personal health textbook – a great tool for establishing a health baseline for students. The companion Online Learning Center (website) offers a wealth of pedagogical and assessment features, including quizzes, Internet activities, downloadable MP3s, and more.

BRIEF CONTENT
1 Shaping Your Health 1
2 Achieving Psychological Health 29
3 Managing Stress 50
4 Becoming Physically Fit 73
5 Understanding Nutrition and Your Diet 94
6 Maintaining a Healthy Weight 125
7 Making Decisions About Drug and Alcohol Use 154
8 Rejecting Tobacco Use 186
9 Enhancing Your Cardiovascular Health 216
10 Living with Cancer and Other Chronic Conditions 238
11 Preventing Infectious Diseases 271
12 Understanding Sexuality 302
13 Managing Your Fertility 328
14 Becoming an Informed Health Care Consumer 357
15 Preventing Injuries 384
16 The Environment and Your Health 407
17 Accepting Dying and Death 434
Glossary 452
Photo Credits 462
Index 463

PREFACE
As a health educator, you already know that personal health is one of the most exciting courses a college student will take. Today’s media-oriented college students are aware of the critical health issues of the new millennium. They hear about environmental issues, substance abuse, sexually transmitted infections, fitness, and nutrition virtually every day. The value of the personal health course is its potential to expand students’ knowledge of these and other health topics. Students will then be able to examine their attitudes toward health issues and modify their behavior to improve their health and perhaps even
prevent or delay the onset of certain health conditions.
Focus on Health accomplishes this task with a carefully composed, well-documented text that addresses the health issues most important to both instructors and students. As health educators, we understand the teaching issues you face daily in the classroom and have written this text with your concerns in mind.

Acknowledgments
While producing textbooks for nearly three decades, we realize that it takes many talented, dedicated people to develop, write, and publish successful books. For this eleventh edition of Focus on Health, we again used the professional expertise and writing talents of a team of three contributing authors, all professors at Ball State University. Lenny Kaminsky, Ph.D., professor of Exercise Science and coordinator of the Clinical Exercise Physiology and Adult Physical Fitness programs, took on the task of revising and updating Chapter 4, “Becoming Physically Fit,” and Chapter 9, “Enhancing Your Cardiovascular Health.” Robert Pinger, Ph.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Physiology and Health Science, revised Chapter 15, “Preventing Injuries.” David LeBlanc, professor of Biology, revised Chapter 16, “The
Environment and Your Health.” We thank these experienced contributors for their professional dedication to this book and their personal commitment to the health of college students with whom they work on a daily basis.
Focus on Health has benefited from the expert knowledge and helpful suggestions of many people. We are grateful for their participation in this edition:
Zuzana Bic, California State Polytechnic University–Pomona Sheri Bollinger, Northampton Community College Jan Dowell, Prairie State College Stephanie Duguid, Copiah Lincoln Community College
Keri Kulik, Indiana University of Pennsylvania–Indiana Helene Washington, Black Hawk College The sponsoring editor for this eleventh edition of Focus on Health is Chris Johnson. Chris is also the
executive editor for Health and Human Performance at McGraw-Hill Higher Education. With his good sense of humor, his vision and level-headed thinking, we hope to work with him on many future book projects.
New to this edition is our developmental editor, Lynda Huenefeld. We have known Lynda for many years but have never worked with her so closely on a book project.
Lynda deserves a lot of praise for her editorial efforts on this comprehensive book. She is a great communicator and wonderful problem-solver, with a knack for finding quick consensus on thorny issues. We are indeed thankful for having Lynda as the person most closely attached to this edition.
On the production end of this textbook, we have three people that particularly stand out: Holly Irish, Tom Briggs, and Melanie Field. Holly was our production editor. Her duties were to oversee the entire production end of this project. Although we did not have day-to-day contact with Holly, we knew that our revised manuscript was being carefully watched over by Holly’s experienced eyes. Thank you for coordinating this massive effort, Holly Tom Briggs worked with us for the first time as our manuscript editor. In this capacity, he made certain that all of the text revisions, updated sections, and new information fit well together in the chapters. Much of the clarity of this manuscript is due to Tom’s watchful eyes. Thank you, Tom for your ability to work well with all of us.
We were quite fortunate to have Melanie Field serve as our production manager. Melanie has worked on many of our recent book projects, and she is a gem. She knows how to juggle the many tasks that come with working with multiple authors and contributors, the permissions editor, the manuscript editor, the book designers, the proofreaders, the compositors, and the printers. We think of Melanie as a head chef in a five-star restaurant, working behind the scenes to produce a product that will be remembered for years. Thank you, Melanie. Finally, we would like to thank our families for their continued support and love. More than anyone else, they know the energy and dedication it takes to write and revise textbooks. To them we continue to offer our sincere admiration and loving appreciation.