Health: The Basics (8th Edition) [Paperback]

Rebecca J. Donatelle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 19, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0321523024 | ISBN-13: 978-0321523020 | Edition: 8

 

The Eighth Edition of Donatelle’s text provides students with the tools they need to make healthy, lifelong behavior changes and become savvy consumers of health information. This current and user-friendly text holds students’ interest by covering health topics of primary concern to them. Promoting Healthy Behavior Change; Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well; Managing Stress: Coping with Life's Challenges; Violence and Abuse: Creating Healthy Environments; Healthy Relationships and Sexuality: Making Commitments; Birth Control, Pregnancy, and Childbirth: Managing Your Fertility; Licit and Illicit Drugs: Use, Misuse, and Abuse; Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine: Daily Pleasure, Daily Challenges; Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health; Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance; Personal Fitness: Improving Health through Exercise; Cardiovascular Disease: Reducing Your Risk; Cancer: Reducing Your Risk; Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions: Risks and Responsibilities; Life's Transitions: The Aging Process; Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally; Consumerism: Selecting Health Care Products and Services; Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices and Responsibilities for Healthwise Consumers For all readers interested in making healthy,lifelong behavior changes.   .

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About the Author

Rebecca J. Donatelle, Ph. D.

Oregon State University

 

Rebecca Donatelle is an Associate Professor in Public Health and is the Coordinator of Public Health Promotion and Education Programs in the College of Health and Human Sciences. 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.

 

Becky is a highly involved, student-centered teacher and mentor for undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Public Health at Oregon State University. Although her main emphasis is in the area of Public Health Promotion and Health Education, she teaches a wide range of students from many disciplines on the Oregon State campus. Courses she teaches that are relevant to personal health include Principles of Health Behaviors, Stress and Health, Violence and Public Health, Epidemiology and Control of Chronic Diseases, Introduction to Human Disease (Communicable), and a new course on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

 

In addition to her varied teaching responsibilities, Becky is an active researcher in the area of health behaviors and behavior change including studies with a focus on motivating behavior change, the use of social support in facilitating behavior change, the use of community supports to assist individuals in changing high-risk behaviors, and the role of stress in health and disease.

 

Becky has also conducted extensive research in the area of decision-making and factors influencing the use of alternative and traditional health care providers for treatment of low back pain; illness and sick role behaviors; women’s decisions about treatment for breast cancer and cardiac rehabilitation.

 

Donatelle 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. She has been an active member of several state and national committees and task forces and continues to work to reduce risk for high risk populations, particularly women and the elderly. Donatelle has written many books, including Access to Health (Benjamin Cummings), Wellness: Choices for Health and Fitness (Thomson Publishing), and AIDS and STDs: A Global Perspective (Pearson Custom Publishing), and she has written several chapters and manuscripts for various health-related books and journals. In addition, Donatelle is a co-author on Benjamin Cummings’ upcoming personal fitness and wellness text, Get Fit, Stay Well, available August 2008.

 

 

 

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Benjamin Cummings; 8 edition (January 19, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321523024
• ISBN-13: 978-0321523020
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,846 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Knowledge Contains Same Info as 9th Ed, April 11, 2011

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shisam13 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Health: The Basics (8th Edition) (Paperback)

This book is perfect for what its used for. Obviously by a college level much of this info is common knowledge but its a great reminder of what it takes to live a healthy life. For any one required to purchase this book or the 9th ed for a class they are exactly the same thing. The only difference is one chapter in 8 is split into 2 chapters in 9. Save your self money and just by the 8th edition

5.0 out of 5 stars great book, October 11, 2011

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Sian - See all my reviews

This review is from: Health: The Basics (8th Edition) (Paperback)

great book, easy to read. An must have for any person that like to have an healthy life. And yes this was part of our school project.

5.0 out of 5 stars Health: The Basics, July 22, 2011

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Blanca Sanchez - See all my reviews

This review is from: Health: The Basics (8th Edition) (Paperback)

The book is easy to read. It contains very useful information that a college student needs to know to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I love the exercises that come in each section because it makes someone realize if he/she has been following a sedentary lifestyle and it helps him/her fix the problem.