Health and Wellness - Hardcover

Meeks, Linda; Page, Randy; Heit, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1886693145 ISBN 13: 9781886693142

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe, 1999

Synopsis

Health and Wellness provides comprehensive health content, life skills lessons, and high-interest special features that address the National Health Standards to teaching health literacy.

• Dynamic visuals and graphics spark student interest and support content
• Easy-to-read format written in an engaging style that appeals to all students
• Spiraled content development in manageable blocks of text; wide range of activities teach important life skills

About this title

About the Author

Linda Meeks and Philip Heit are emeritus professors of Health Education in the College of Education at The Ohio State University. Linda and Philip previously owned Meeks Heit Publishing, a publishing company that specialized in producing health education textbooks, video, CD-ROM, and multimedia programs for grades K-12 and college. Linda and Philip sold Meeks Heit Publishing Company and the McGraw-Hill Companies acquired their product line and works closely with them. Linda and Philip remain actively involved in the health education profession, continuing to write textbooks. To date, they have co-authored more than 250 different health education textbooks that are used by millions of students preschool through college. They have recently produced new editions of Totally Awesome(r) Health K 8 and Health and Wellness 9 12. Linda and Philip continue to assist state departments of education and as well as thousands of school districts, develop comprehensive school health education curricula and implement the National Health Education Standards. Their textbooks and other materials continue to be used throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Japan, Mexico, England, Puerto Rico, Spain, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bermuda, and the Virgin Islands. During the years they taught at The Ohio State University, Linda and Philip taught thousands of teachers, school administrators, and allied health professionals in how to teach health and communicate with children and parents on relevant health issues. During this time, Randy Page joined the faculty and taught with Linda and Philip. Linda, Philip, and Randy continued to collaborate when Randy left and joined the faculty at The University of Idaho as Professor of Health Education. Randy has written more than 70 journal articles and consulted on research projects with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They have collaborated on Comprehensive School Health Education: Totally Awesome Strategies for Teaching Health(r); Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco: Totally Awesome(r) Strategies(r); and Violence Prevention: Totally Awesome(r) Teaching Strategies for Safe and Drug-Free Schools.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1886693145
• ISBN 13: 9781886693142
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 806