The thirteenth edition of Health & Wellness explores the many facets of personal health and self-responsibility, while focusing on the basic principles of physical, mental, and spiritual health. It provides students with the tools they need to make informed health decisions that promote lifelong wellness. Written in a personal and engaging style, the Thirteen Edition of this best-selling text, encourages readers to be responsible for their own health-related behaviors and outlines how to improve overall health through nutrition, fitness, stress management, and maintaining an overall healthy lifestyle.
New and updated boxed feature topics include:
What do Indoor Tanning Beds and Cigarettes Have in Common?
Plastic Microbeads and Microfibers Pollute Oceans and Seas
Health Tips for Meeting Basic Human Needs
Throughout the text you'll find new and updated illustrations, photos, and tables highlighting important information in the chapter
Chapter 8, Healthy Sexuality and Intimate Relationships, has been revised and updated to expand on the LGBTQ community
Chapter 19, Making Decisions About Health Care, has been updated to discuss the changing health care policies
The Student Workbook, included at the back of the text, provides various new and updated health related activities
The Instructor Resources include 3000 new and updated assessment items, including: Practice Activities, Midterm, and Final. Other Instructor Resources include more than 250 slides in PowerPoint format, an updated Instructor's Manual containing Discussion Questions and Model Answers, and updated Weblinks to relevant health-related sites.
The goal of this textbook is to provide students with the information they need to understand and implement the basic principles of physical, mental, and spiritual wellness. It is ideal for courses in:
Personal Health
Health Education
Personal Wellness
Health Studies
