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An Invitation to Health 16th Edition Chapter 1

An Invitation to Health, 16th Edition

An Invitation to Health

Published: © 2015

Print ISBN: 9781285783116

Pages: 704

Available

In this new edition of the market-leading personal health text, Dianne Hales invites your students to a future of healthy living by providing the information and tools they need to make healthy changes NOW. Delivering the most current and thorough coverage available, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: Live it Now! integrates a comprehensive range of health concepts related to body, mind,… More

For Instructors

For Students

  • Table of Contents

  • New to this edition

  • Features

  • About the author(s)

Section I: YOUR INVITATION TO HEALTH.
1. The Power of Now.
2. Your Psychological and Spiritual Well Being.
3. Caring for Your Mind.
4. Personal Stress Management.
5. Your Social Health.
Section II: HEALTHY LIFESTYLES.
6. Personal Nutrition.
7. Managing Your Weight.
8. The Joy of Fitness .
Section II: RESPONSIBLE SEXUALITY.
9. Personal Sexuality.
10. Reproductive Choices.
11. Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Section IV: MAKING HEALTHY CHOICES.
12. Addictions.
13. Alcohol.
14. Tobacco.
Section V: TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH.
15. Major Diseases.
16. Infectious Illnesses.
17. Consumer Health.
Section VI: HEALTH IN CONTEXT.
18. Personal Safety.
19. A Healthier Environment.
20. A Lifetime of Health.

  • Initiation to Health: Live it Now! has been thoroughly updated in every chapter and presents the latest research information available. Findings from the latest federal reports on the health of the nation, including the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine's U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health are presented. The new edition integrates the new mental health criteria in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fifth edition (DSM-5). The text highlights current research on all aspects of college students' health and lives, including the recent data from the American College Health Association National College Health Association's 2013 survey.
  • New Chapter on Consumer Health: The new Consumer Health chapter helps students take greater responsibility for their personal well-being—whether they are gathering information online, preparing for a medical visit, evaluating both traditional and nontraditional treatments, or navigating the health care system.
  • Two reworked features highlight the importance of personal responsibility for healthy choices and behavior change. 1) Snapshot: On Campus highlights health issues of importance to college age students, allowing students to see how their behavior compares with others. 2) Health Now sidebars provide a brief list of Do's and Don'ts for healthy behavior.
  • A new online resource called Live it Now! Labs offers practical suggestions to help students apply the concepts presented in each chapter. The online labs provide an easy to follow framework for positive change, providing specific suggestions in the following three categories; "Get" Real", "Get Ready", and "Get Going."
  • "Health Now" gives students a brief list of Do's and Don'ts for healthy behavior. Examples include "Count Your Blessings," "Assessing a Relationship," and "Analyzing Your Diet".
  • The latest research and coverage has been added, including new information on consumer health, positive psychology, sexual responsibility, and drug usage.
  • Personal choice: An important component of changing for lifelong healthy living is personal choice. Two features encourage students to self-assess for healthy change. "Snapshot: On Campus Now" encourages students to compare their attitudes and behaviors to those of other students. "Live it Now!" provides a checklist of change behaviors based on the topic of each chapter.
  • Chapter 5 on Social Health addresses online relationships, protecting oneself and one's privacy, and more.
  • Comprehensive coverage: Designed for an introductory-level personal health course, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: LIVE IT NOW! is known for its emphasis on behavior change, up-to-date coverage, student-friendly style, and practical, action-oriented approach. It covers a wide range of health topics, from fitness and nutrition to disease prevention, stress management, and development of healthy relationships.
  • Live it Now: The theme of this edition is that the choices students make now impact their health in the future.
  • Positive change: The cornerstone of this text, behavior change is an increasingly emphasized theme that reflects the need for improving health behaviors and making healthy changes.
  • Strategies for change: The text offers a wealth of tips and strategies for making positive life changes. In addition to the "Your Strategies for Change/Your Strategies for Prevention" boxes, Learn It/Live It, Your Health Action Plan and "Self-Surveys," there are links to the new companion book INVITATION TO PERSONAL CHANGE, which offers ways to implement change in a variety of areas.
  • Online tools: This text is fully integrated with online teaching and learning resources that include INVITATION TO PERSONAL CHANGE labs, interactive behavior change planner, videos, and more.
  • Dianne Hales is a successful textbook author and prolific health journalist whose immersion in current health issues is reflected throughout the text. With her unique understanding of today's college students, Hales focuses on topics and issues that are important and relevant to your students.

Dianne Hales

Dianne Hales is a widely published and esteemed journalist and author. In addition to more than 30 editions of college textbooks related to health, she is the author of 16 trade books, including LA PASSIONE: HOW ITALY SEDUCED THE WORLD; MONA LISA: A LIFE DISCOVERED; LA BELLA LINGUA; JUST LIKE A WOMAN; and CARING FOR THE MIND. Her books have been translated into many languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Korean. Hales is a former contributing editor for Parade, Ladies' Home Journal, Working Mother, and American Health, and she has written more than 1,000 articles for national publications. She has received writing awards from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association; an EMMA (Exceptional Media Merit Award) for health reporting from the National Women's Political Caucus and Radcliffe College; three EDI (Equality, Dignity, Inclusion) awards for print journalism from the National Easter Seal Society; the National Mature Media Award; and awards from the Arthritis Foundation, California Psychiatric Association, CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), Council for the Advancement of Scientific Education, and New York Public Library.

Table of Contents

Section I: YOUR INVITATION TO HEALTH.
1. The Power of Now.
2. Your Psychological and Spiritual Well Being.
3. Caring for Your Mind.
4. Personal Stress Management.
5. Your Social Health.
Section II: HEALTHY LIFESTYLES.
6. Personal Nutrition.
7. Managing Your Weight.
8. The Joy of Fitness .
Section II: RESPONSIBLE SEXUALITY.
9. Personal Sexuality.
10. Reproductive Choices.
11. Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Section IV: MAKING HEALTHY CHOICES.
12. Addictions.
13. Alcohol.
14. Tobacco.
Section V: TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH.
15. Major Diseases.
16. Infectious Illnesses.
17. Consumer Health.
Section VI: HEALTH IN CONTEXT.
18. Personal Safety.
19. A Healthier Environment.
20. A Lifetime of Health.

New to this edition

  • Initiation to Health: Live it Now! has been thoroughly updated in every chapter and presents the latest research information available. Findings from the latest federal reports on the health of the nation, including the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine's U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health are presented. The new edition integrates the new mental health criteria in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fifth edition (DSM-5). The text highlights current research on all aspects of college students' health and lives, including the recent data from the American College Health Association National College Health Association's 2013 survey.
  • New Chapter on Consumer Health: The new Consumer Health chapter helps students take greater responsibility for their personal well-being—whether they are gathering information online, preparing for a medical visit, evaluating both traditional and nontraditional treatments, or navigating the health care system.
  • Two reworked features highlight the importance of personal responsibility for healthy choices and behavior change. 1) Snapshot: On Campus highlights health issues of importance to college age students, allowing students to see how their behavior compares with others. 2) Health Now sidebars provide a brief list of Do's and Don'ts for healthy behavior.
  • A new online resource called Live it Now! Labs offers practical suggestions to help students apply the concepts presented in each chapter. The online labs provide an easy to follow framework for positive change, providing specific suggestions in the following three categories; "Get" Real", "Get Ready", and "Get Going."

Features

  • "Health Now" gives students a brief list of Do's and Don'ts for healthy behavior. Examples include "Count Your Blessings," "Assessing a Relationship," and "Analyzing Your Diet".
  • The latest research and coverage has been added, including new information on consumer health, positive psychology, sexual responsibility, and drug usage.
  • Personal choice: An important component of changing for lifelong healthy living is personal choice. Two features encourage students to self-assess for healthy change. "Snapshot: On Campus Now" encourages students to compare their attitudes and behaviors to those of other students. "Live it Now!" provides a checklist of change behaviors based on the topic of each chapter.
  • Chapter 5 on Social Health addresses online relationships, protecting oneself and one's privacy, and more.
  • Comprehensive coverage: Designed for an introductory-level personal health course, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: LIVE IT NOW! is known for its emphasis on behavior change, up-to-date coverage, student-friendly style, and practical, action-oriented approach. It covers a wide range of health topics, from fitness and nutrition to disease prevention, stress management, and development of healthy relationships.
  • Live it Now: The theme of this edition is that the choices students make now impact their health in the future.
  • Positive change: The cornerstone of this text, behavior change is an increasingly emphasized theme that reflects the need for improving health behaviors and making healthy changes.
  • Strategies for change: The text offers a wealth of tips and strategies for making positive life changes. In addition to the "Your Strategies for Change/Your Strategies for Prevention" boxes, Learn It/Live It, Your Health Action Plan and "Self-Surveys," there are links to the new companion book INVITATION TO PERSONAL CHANGE, which offers ways to implement change in a variety of areas.
  • Online tools: This text is fully integrated with online teaching and learning resources that include INVITATION TO PERSONAL CHANGE labs, interactive behavior change planner, videos, and more.
  • Dianne Hales is a successful textbook author and prolific health journalist whose immersion in current health issues is reflected throughout the text. With her unique understanding of today's college students, Hales focuses on topics and issues that are important and relevant to your students.

About the author(s)

Dianne Hales

Dianne Hales is a widely published and esteemed journalist and author. In addition to more than 30 editions of college textbooks related to health, she is the author of 16 trade books, including LA PASSIONE: HOW ITALY SEDUCED THE WORLD; MONA LISA: A LIFE DISCOVERED; LA BELLA LINGUA; JUST LIKE A WOMAN; and CARING FOR THE MIND. Her books have been translated into many languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Korean. Hales is a former contributing editor for Parade, Ladies' Home Journal, Working Mother, and American Health, and she has written more than 1,000 articles for national publications. She has received writing awards from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association; an EMMA (Exceptional Media Merit Award) for health reporting from the National Women's Political Caucus and Radcliffe College; three EDI (Equality, Dignity, Inclusion) awards for print journalism from the National Easter Seal Society; the National Mature Media Award; and awards from the Arthritis Foundation, California Psychiatric Association, CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), Council for the Advancement of Scientific Education, and New York Public Library.

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