Product Description

Access to Health continues to be the leading text for teaching behavior change. The Ninth Edition provides a consistent framework for motivating readers to make healthy life choices, with updated coverage on hot topics such as low-carb diets and diabetes that demonstrate the relevance of health to reader's lives. As a teacher, mentor, and researcher, Rebecca J. Donatelle knows the health issues that are important to today's society. Through her engaging and friendly writing style, Donatelle addresses readers' concerns and teaches them how to be savvy and critical consumers of health information. Access to Health provides hands-on practical tools that help readers make healthy changes in their lives. Finding the Right Balance, Creating Healthy and Caring Relationships, Choosing a Healthy Lifestyle, Avoiding Risks to Harmful Habits, Preventing and Fighting Disease, Facing Life's Challenges. For all readers interested in making healthy life choices.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #574228 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 776 pages

From the Back Cover
Key Benefit: Often those interested in purchasing a general health book are overwhelmed by the medical jargon and size of the references that are on the shelves. And today, more emphasis is being placed on people to eat right, exercises properly and maintain their health. Access to Health provides readers with a comprehensive overview of all aspects affecting their health in this easy-to-understand guide. Key Topics: Readers will learn to develop healthy behaviors through a variety of practical activities and exercises. The first personal health book to include full chapter coverage of communication, violence, and addictions, this book provides additional assessments, maintains its contemporary focus and continues to emphasize current trends in personal health and their direct impact on the reader. Market: This overview to living a healthful lifestyle is ideal for today's busy students and professionals -- a perfect reference for teachers and day care providers.

About the Author

Rebecca J. Donatelle is a teacher and mentor for undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Public Health at Oregon State University. Although her main emphasis is in the area of Public Health Promotion and Health Education, she teaches a wide range of students from many disciplines on the Oregon State campus. Donatelle is an Associate Professor in Public Health and is the Coordinator of Public Health Promotion and Education Programs in the College of Health and Human Sciences. She has a Ph.D. in Community Health/Health Education, a Master of Science degree in Health Education, and a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in both Health/Physical Education and English. She is also a Certified Health Education Specialist.

Among the courses that she teaches are Principles of Health Behaviors, Stress and Health, Violence and Public Health, Epidemiology and Control of Chronic Diseases, and Introduction to Human Disease (Communicable). Recently, she has developed a new course on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Donatelle is an active researcher in the area of health behaviors, and she has been the principal investigator on a number of randomized, controlled trials focusing on motivating behavior change, the use of social support facilitating behavior change, and the use of community supports to assist individuals in changing high-risk behaviors. Currently, she is working with pregnant women who smoke in an effort to get them to reduce or stop smoking during pregnancy and beyond. She has also conducted extensive research in the area of decision making and factors influencing the use of alternative and traditional health care providers for treatment of low back pain; illness and sick role behaviors; women's decisions about treatment for breast cancer and cardiac rehabilitation; and stress in health and disease.

Donatelle has received the Leadership Award, an Outstanding Teacher Award, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Presidential Award for Promising New Research in the Smoke-Free Families National Initiative. She has been an active member of several state and national committees and task forces and continues to work to reduce risk for high-risk populations, particularly women and older adults. In addition to Access to Health, Donatelle is the author of Health: The Basics, Fitness for Health, and AIDS and STIs in a Global Society, and she has written several chapters and manuscripts for various health-related books and journals.

Customer Reviews

Excellent!
The 1999 Edition of Access to Health by Donatelle and Davis is excellent! User friendly writing style, colors, charts, references, and a comprehensive collection of chapters that cover all the key personal health related topics. From human sexuality to societal violence, the text covers all the bases. The authors have worked hard to bring this Edition up to date with the most current health research references/topics. I strongly recommend considering adoption for any introductory personal health course.

Perfect for the DANTES Here's to Your Health exam
This book covers everything you need to know to pass the Dantes Health exam. It's well worth its cost, if you want/need a high passing score.

Thumbs Up for Access to Health
I just completed a health class and this was the textbook we used. I learned so much from using this book. This book is precise and to the point. It provides you with colorful pictures, charts, and definitions that's superb. It provides great information on Weight Management, Cancer, Heart Disease, Illicit Drugs, and Alchohol.

No health class should go with out this book. This is defintely a great teaching tool for those that are taking a health class, or simply a great reference guide. I give this book five stars.