Focus on Health - Softcover

Hahn, Dale; Payne, Wayne; Lucas, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007338089X ISBN 13: 9780073380896

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2010

Synopsis

Focus on Health offers an exciting and practical approach to the teaching of the traditional content areas of personal health. Its two key themes - the six dimensions of health and the five developmental tasks - help students apply the text's content to their own lives, by improving their decision-making skills.

The strength of the Focus on Health narrative includes its appeal to both traditional and non-traditional students, particularly the special attention it pays to students over age 25 who have returned to college.

In addition, among its many health assessment activities, Focus on Health includes one of the most comprehensive health assessments found in any personal health textbook - a great tool for establishing a health baseline for students.

The companion Online Learning Center (website) offers a wealth of pedagogical and assessment features, including quizzes, Internet activities, downloadable MP3s, and more.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Fosters critical evaluation of sources of health information in the media'today's most common resource'including the web (chat rooms, nonprofit sites, commercial sites, alternative medicine sites), television, radio, newspapers, and magazines) with new Eye on the Media boxes. have been placed on the opening page of every chapter to emphasize today's reliance on the media for health information.
Includes newly updated HealthQuest 2.0 CD-ROM, which contains many assessment activities with customized feedback, activities to assess readiness for behavior change, a risk-analysis feature, many new articles from journals and other sources, and video clips. It also includes a useful instructor's manual.
Provides complete instructor support through the Course Solutions program helping instructors to incorporate print and new media such into the course and classroom.
Encourages development of communication skills with Talking Points'critical thinking questions that help students understand the value of clear communication with their families, friends, and health care professionals.
Presents issues that affect spiritual health, such as body image, support networks, and living well with an illness in Exploring Your Spirituality boxes.
Prompts students to assess their health behavior and set goals for positive lifestyle change with chapter opening objectives for behavior change titled Take Charge of Your Health.
Features a revised Book Web Site with Online Learning Center (formatted for adaption with Web-CT), Book Specific PowerPoint, links to Super Sites and other McGraw-Hill materials and supplements such as PageOut.
Features a new, 14-page Comprehensive Health Assessment, which allows students to evaluate their health behavior, history, and risk factors in the areas of social and occupational health; spiritual and psychological health; stress management; fitness; nutrition and weight management; alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use; disease prevention; sexual health; safety practices and violence prevention; health care consumerism; and environmental health.
Showcases new detailed anatomical drawings and provides other sophisticated pieces of art to help students grasp complex concepts introduced in the text.

Provides HealthQuest Activities boxes to help students get the most out of the HealthQuest 2.0 CD-ROM packaged with the text.
Helps students improve their health habits with behavior change strategies and guidelines in retitled Changing for the Better boxes in every chapter.
Guides students through valuable health self-assessments available on the web with retitled Health on the Web Behavior Change Activities boxes.
Addresses the needs of nontraditional students as well as the traditional-age college population and discusses diversity issues in today's health ensuring the text is relevant to the daily lives of the broadest range of students.
Encourages students to consider issues that affect diverse populations, such as older people, disabled people, children, gay people, and women in retitled Learning from Our Diversity boxes.

Offers Personal Assessment activities at relevant points within the chapters and invites students to evaluate content-related aspects of their own health.
Includes a laminated, perforated Health Reference Guide that provides students with a readily available listing of the most commonly used resources. It can easily be detached and kept for later use.
Provides a complete chapter pedagogy: Take Charge of Your Health behavior change objectives, Eye on the Media boxes, Online Learning Center boxes, boxed definitions, Exploring Your Spirituality boxes, Talking Points communication questions, Changing for the Better boxes, Learning from Our Diversity boxes, Star Boxes, Health on the Web Behavior Change Activities boxes, HealthQuest Activities boxes, Personal Assessments, chapter summaries, review questions, As We Go to Press... boxes, references, annotated readings, and Focus On' articles.

About the Author:

Dale B. Hahn has been a faculty member at Ball State University for 30 years. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus of Health Science in the Department of Physiology and Health Science. Hahn earned his Ph.D. in health education at Ohio State University, his M.Ed. in sports administration at Ohio University, and his B.A. in psychology from Allegheny College. He has published in a variety of health-related professional journals and has been an active member of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, the American School Health Association, and the American College Health Association. Hahn has led college students on educational trips to China, Korea, Japan, England and Australia. Ball State awarded Hahn university-wide teaching awards in 1998 and 2009. In 2002, Hahn was a Visiting Scholar at Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford in England. He continues to enjoy many outdoor fitness activities, including hiking and running.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 007338089X
• ISBN 13: 9780073380896
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512