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- Published
- July 2020
- Page Count
- 740
- ISBN (Digital)
- 978-1-4533-3595-6
Health Now: An Integrative Approach to Personal Health
Version 3.1
Included Supplements
Key Features
- Includes information about COVID-19.
- Standard organization with a cross-section of information on various approaches to healthy living: conventional, holistic, complementary, and integrative.
- Overall integrative theme shifts away from a primary focus on treating disease to an emphasis on keeping patients healthy in the first place. Addresses all aspects of an individual’s health, not just physical considerations. Encompasses a variety of relevant, evidence-based therapies to optimize health and avoid disease.
- Healthy aging is highlighted throughout through a focus on modifiable risk factors.
- Features summaries of historical milestones culminating in our current understanding of health.
- Videos from health organizations that help cement or augment many of the presented concepts and best practices.
- Replete with self-assessments and recommendations for a healthy lifestyle.
- Customizable.
New version coming in April 2021 with 2020–2025 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Students
- Online Access Price
- $32.95
- Color Printed Textbook with Online Access Price
- $57.95
Health Now: An Integrative Approach to Personal Health is suitable for courses on Personal Health or Introduction to Health that cover basic information about how to get and stay healthy. This course is generally taught at the undergraduate level at most two- and four-year colleges and universities.
Health Now: An Integrative Approach to Personal Health is an introduction to personal health that presents and identifies lifestyle changes that promote health and wellness and prevent disease. Students will learn how personal habits ripple outward, affecting not only themselves, but also their loved ones and, ultimately, the local and global environment. Students will develop a firm grasp of health basics and health literacy that encourages them to consult credible sources for answers.
New in This Version
- Version 3.1 includes information about COVID-19 and how to prevent or slow its transmission, how to minimize risk of contracting the infection, and the increased risk of adverse outcomes for individuals who are older, smoke, or have underlying health conditions such as high-blood pressure, COPD, obesity, diabetes, and immunodeficiency. Version 3.1 also discusses the novel coronavirus’ impact on stress, well-being, domestic violence, substance abuse, mental health, and the environment.
- Reflects the recent updates to Version 3.0:
- Enhanced recommendations for use of technology in relation to health.
- Updated information on smoking, vaping, alcohol, drugs, and the opioid epidemic.
- Included more information regarding personal safety, with new information on gun violence, gender discrimination, and sexual harassment.
- New information on stress and sleep.
- Added information on emerging cancer treatments, such as immunotherapy.
- Incorporated current data on impacts of climate change and developments in national and international efforts to control carbon emissions.
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