Essential Concepts for Healthy Living, Fifth Edition Update provides students with a clear and concise introduction to the latest scientific and medical research in personal health. With its unique focus on critical thinking and analysis of health-related behaviors and attitudes, this text enhances students' understanding of their own health needs and presents the scientific background necessary for students to think critically about the reliability of health-related information they encounter in the media. The Fifth Edition Update provides the most current data on a comprehensive array of health and wellness topics and issues. It includes the latest information on: Health Care Costs; Binge Drinking; Alternative Medical Therapies; Mental Illness and Depression; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Eating Disorders; Physical Activity and Health; Cervical and Prostate Cancer; Drug Use and Abuse, and much more.
- ISBN10 1449636004
- ISBN13 9781449636005
- Publish Date 22 February 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Jones & Bartlett Publishers
- Edition 5th ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 628
- Language English