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This text 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. Technology use is also integrated into the text with Online Learning Center boxes, HealthQuest activities, and “Health on the Web” boxes.
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Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- chapter 1: Shaping Your Health
- chapter 2: Achieving Psychological Health
- chapter 3: Managing Stress
- chapter 4: Becoming Physically Fit
- chapter 5: Understanding Nutrition and Your Diet
- chapter 6: Maintaining a Healthy Weight
- chapter 7: Making Decisions about Drug and Alcohol Use
- chapter 8: Rejecting Tobacco Use
- chapter 9: Enhancing Your Cardiovascular Health
- chapter 10: Living with Cancer and Other Chronic Conditions
- chapter 11: Preventing Infectious Diseases
- chapter 12: Understanding Sexuality
- chapter 13: Managing Your Fertility
- chapter 14: Becoming an Informed Health Care Consumer
- chapter 15: Protecting Your Safety
- chapter 16: The Environment and Your Health
- chapter 17: Accepting Dying and Death
- Back Matter

