Health: The Basics: International Edition (10e)

Health starts here!

With an emphasis on media, the new Health: The Basics, Tenth Edition features robust relatable content, bringing health topics to life and keeping students hooked on learning and living well.

Now enhanced with an even more comprehensive package of easy-to-use media and supplements, this edition makes teaching and learning personal health extra dynamic. The Tenth Edition includes new ABC News videos, more online worksheets, new course management and eText options, Tweet Your Health, new student “behavior change video log (vlog)” videos, countless new teacher supplements, and more. These resources bring personal health to life in any form—in the classroom, online, or on the iPad. These tools all motivate students to be more interested in the book content and invest in their health.  

1. Accessing Your Health

2. Promoting and Preserving Your Psychological Health

Focus on: Cultivating Your Spiritual Health

3. Managing Stress and Coping with Life’s Challenges

Focus on: Improving Your Sleep

4. Preventing Violence and Injury

5. Building Healthy Relationships and Understanding Sexuality

6. Considering Your Reproductive Choices

7. Recognizing and Avoiding Addiction and Drug Use

8. Drinking Alcohol Responsibly and Ending Tobacco Use

9. Eating for a Healthier You

10. Reaching and Maintaining a Healthy Weight

Focus On: Enhancing Your Body Image

11. Improving Your Personal Fitness

12. Reducing Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer

Focus on: Minimizing Your Risk for Diabetes

13. Protecting against Infectious and Noninfectious Diseases

14. Preparing for Aging, Death, and Dying

15. Promoting Environmental Health

16. Making Smart Health Care Choices

17. Understanding Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Updates to the media program include:

• ABC News videos are called out within each chapter where the applicable content appears, with links to the Companion Website. For the first time for this book, the ABC News videos will be available in a password-protected section of the Companion Website, so anyone who buys a new copy of the book will have access to them.
• MyHealthLab^® has been redesigned and more assignable gradable content is available for every chapter. Instructors can now assign as many as six assignments per chapter—all with just a click of a button. Assigning and grading homework has never been easier! This also includes a pre-deployed discussion thread content.
• New Student “Video Blogs (vlogs)” show real students’ attempts at behavior change throughout a semester, showing their triumphs and failures, and allowing for assignments and learning experiences. Vlog videos will be available on the Companion Website.
• Online worksheets have been improved with clearer organization on the Companion Website and easier to use interactive PDFs that can be saved, printed or emailed to an instructor.
• The new Teaching with Web 2.0 booklet is available in the Instructor Resources section in the Teaching Tool Box.
• The Course-at-a-Glance component of the Teaching Tool Box will be redesigned to focus on Instructor Supplements. One side focuses entirely on media and the other side focuses on supplemental tools.
• The Test Bank has undergone rigorous accuracy checking to ensure the highest accuracy possible for print, computerized, and online testing and quizzing.
• New Teaching with Student Learning Outcomes publication contains essays from 11 instructors who are teaching using student learning outcomes. They share their goals in using outcomes, the processes that they follow to develop and refine the outcomes, and many useful suggestions and examples for successfully incorporating outcomes into a personal health course.

Updates to the text include:

• New Points of View boxes present a controversial health issue and explain opposing viewpoints on the issue. Where Do You Stand? critical thinking questions encourage students to critically evaluate the information and consider their own stance.
• New Why Should I Care? features address the relevance of health issues to students’ lives by presenting information on the effects poor health habits  have on students in the here and now.
• New What’s Working for You? features emphasize the accessibility of healthy behaviors by calling students’ attention to the little things they are already doing to change their behaviors and improve their health.
• Chapter 1 has been reorganized to walk students through the stages of behavior change.
• More parity has been added to the Gender & Health boxes by including information on men’s health issues.
• More of a focus on racial/ethnic diversity has been achieved by increasing the number of Health in a Diverse World boxes in the book.
• The Spirituality Focus On now appears after the psychological health chapter.

• Proven pedagogical features carry over from previous editions, including the following:
• Chapter objectives summarize the main competencies students will gain from each chapter.
• Chapter Opener questions capture students’ attention and engage them in what they will be learning later in the chapter. The images accompanying the questions are repeated within the chapter, where answers can be found.
• In-text “What Do You Think?” critical thinking questions encourage students to reflect on material they have read.
• Assess Yourself self-assessments have been designed individually so that each is unique, fun, and appealing. They encourage students to evaluate their behaviors and health risks, and to pursue their own behavior change projects. Your Plan for Change now accompanies the self assessments in each chapter, offering practical, targeted, time-based lists of suggestions for behavior change.
• Skills for Behavior Change boxes provide strategies for making healthy changes. 
• Did You Know? is an eye-catching art feature highlighting interesting health facts.
• Health in a Diverse World boxes expand discussion of health topics to diverse groups within the U.S. and around the world.
• Health Headlines boxes highlight new discoveries and research in health-related areas.
• Student Health Today boxes focus on potential health risks and safety issues relevant to college students.
• Be Healthy, Be Green boxes offer information on how health topics relate to environmental concerns. They provide concrete, practical steps students can take to be environmentally friendly in relation to that chapter’s content.
• Consumer Health boxes focus on ways in which students can become better health consumers by applying critical thinking skills to health topics and products.
• A running glossary defines words on the page where students first encounter them.
• End-of-chapter sections let students immediately review what they have learned with chapter summaries, multiple choice review questions, discussion and reflection questions, health Web links, and reference lists.
• A behavior change contract appears at the front of the book to support the behavior change program.
• The Test Bank includes Bloom’s Taxonomy to give instructors more options for assessing their students with a higher order of learning. The Test Bank contains 120-170 questions per chapter. Question formats include multiple choice, true/false, matching, and short answer/essay.
• The Teaching Tool Box features a wealth of instructor resources that reinforce key learning from the text and suit virtually any teaching style. Tools include a Course-at-a-Glance Quick Reference Guide to use as a roadmap to the Tool Box assets; the Instructor Resource DVD (with Lecture Outlines, Computerized Test Bank, Quiz Show questions, and over 70 ABC News Video Clips), an improved Instructor Resource and Support Manual, which includes thumbnails with the chapter organization to help navigate visual assets, and a Test Bank.    
• Green activities on the Companion Website explore more environmental health issues and encourage students to take action to promote environmental responsibilities on their campuses and in their lives.
• Four mini “Focus On” chapters address subjects that relate to many aspects of one’s health and wellness, but that aren’t generally given sufficient coverage in personal health texts. Subjects of the “Focus On” chapters are: Improving Your Sleep, Enhancing Your Body Image, Minimizing Your Risk for Diabetes, and Cultivating Your Spiritual Health.
• Innovative design “hooks” students into the material through its bold, eye-catching features. 
• Gender & Health boxes highlight key gender differences in health status, as well as focusing on health concerns specific to either men or women.

Rebecca Donatelle is an Associate Professor in Public Health and is the Coordinator of the Public Health Promotion and Education Programs in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University. She has a Ph.D. in Community Health/Health Education, a Master of Science degree in Health Education, and a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in both Health/Physical Education and English. She is also a Certified Health Education Specialist in behaviors and behavior change. She has received the Leadership Award, outstanding teacher award in her college, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Presidential Award for Promising New Research in the Smoke-Free Families National Initiative.