Empowering health decisions

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Title:

Author:

Greenberg, Jerrold S.

ISBN:

9781449690403

9781449617387

Personal Author:

Greenberg, Jerrold S.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

xxi, 354 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Contents:

Health: what it is, why you need it, and how to get it -- Assuming responsibility for your health -- Improving your psychological healthy -- Managing stress, rather than letting stress manage you -- Expressing your spirituality for better health -- Building a lifetime of physical fitness -- Preventing lifestyle diseases -- Being an informed health consumer -- Taking charge of your diet and weight -- Developing healthy and satisfying relationships -- Being sexual and responsible -- Using drugs healthfully and avoiding drug abuse and misuse.

Subject Term:

Health -- Decision making.

Health behavior.

Life Style.

Patient Participation.

Students.

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Summary

Empowering Health Decisions offers a personal health text focused on essential content for students to assist them in making informed decisions about their health. This text is unique from other personal texts on the market in that it focuses on decision-making models and theories of behavior change. These models are carried throughout each chapter and will describe how it can be used to make health enhancing decisions specific to the chapter content. A key element of the text is the Health Decision Portfolio which will help students maintain their assignments, text book exercises and website content. The benefit of this portfolio is that it summarizes the student's interaction with course content and encourages the student to identify ways to lead a healthy lifestyle. Key features of this first edition include:Decision-making models and theories of behavior changeChapter exercises designed to reinforce the decision-making modelStaple theories of behavior change such as: Stages of Change Theory, Social Learning Theory, Health Belief Model, and Theory of Reasoned ActionHealth Decision portfolio summarizes the course content and the student's interaction with contentResources: Companion website