Health and wellness for life

Health and wellness for life

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"Health and Wellness for Life" provides professors teaching general education health courses the option to customise their student textbooks to match their syllabi. With a custom "Health on Demand" text, students pay for only the material covered in class, plus teachers can match the text's content to the unique needs of their setting. The standard text, "Health and Wellness for Life", offers a ready-made option for those looking for a textbook that covers all the essential personal health topics for the general student population. Both options feature content developed by 14 veteran health educators and organisedinto a cohesive course text by Human Kinetics, a publisher with a more than 30 years' experience providing top-quality information resources to the fields of HPERD as well as the various kinesiology sub-disciplines. The standard textincludes 17 chapters of the topics most often covered in a general-education health course. Or teachers can choose from a total of 23 chapters to ensure the text includes the material that is most important for their students. For those electing to customise a text, new chapters will be offered as they are developed to expand your options even further. INDICE: Chapter 1. Introduction to Health and Wellness; Chapter 2. Principles of Physical Fitness; Chapter 3. Nutrition Basics; Chapter 4. Weight Management; Chapter 5. Mental Health; Chapter 6. Managing Stress; Chapter 7. Intimate Relationships and Sexuality; Chapter 8. Reproductive Choices; Chapter 9. Pregnancy and Childbirth; Chapter 10. Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Chapter 11. Chronic Diseases; Chapter 12. First Aid and Injury Prevention; Chapter 13. Consumer Health and Alternative Medicine; Chapter 14. Environmental Health; Chapter 15. Substance Use and Abuse; Chapter 16. Healthy Aging; Chapter 17. Wellness Throughout Life.

  • ISBN: 978-0-7360-6850-5
  • Editorial: Human Kinetics Publishers
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 488
  • Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2009
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés