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Promoting Healthy Behavior Change | |
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Putting Health in Perspective | |
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New Directions for Health | |
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Gender Differences and Health Status | |
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Improving Your Health: Benefits of Optimal Health | |
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Preparing for Behavior Change | |
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Choosing a Behavior Change Strategy | |
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Making Behavior Change | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Your Behavior-Change Strategies | |
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Finding The Right Balance | |
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Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well | |
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Defining Psychosocial Health | |
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Factors Influencing Psychosocial Health | |
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Enhancing Psychosocial Health | |
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The Mind-Body Connection | |
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Common Psychosocial Problems | |
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Suicide: Giving Up on Life | |
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Seeking Professional Help | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Your Psychosocial Health | |
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Managing Stress: Coping with Life's Challenges | |
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What Is Stress? | |
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Stress and Your Body | |
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Stress and Your Health | |
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Sources of Stress | |
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Stress and the College Student | |
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Stress Management | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Stress Behaviors | |
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Intentional and Unintentional Injuries: Staying Safe in a Violent World | |
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Violence in the United States | |
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Personal Precipitators of Violence | |
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Intentional Injuries | |
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Reducing Risks | |
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Unintentional Injuries | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Campus Safety | |
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Creating Healthy And Caring Relationships | |
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Healthy Relationships and Sexuality: Making Commitments | |
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Characteristics of Intimate Relationships | |
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Forming Intimate Relationships | |
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Gender Issues | |
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Barriers to Intimacy | |
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Committed Relationships | |
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Success in Committed Relationships | |
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Staying Single | |
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Having Children ï¿½Ç or Not | |
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When Relationships Falter | |
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Building Better Relationships | |
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Your Sexual Identity | |
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Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology | |
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Expressing Your Sexuality | |
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Difficulties That Can Hinder Sexual Functioning | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Your Relationships and Sexual Behavior | |
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Birth Control, Pregnancy, and Childbirth: Managing Your Fertility | |
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Methods of Fertility Management | |
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Abortion | |
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Planning a Pregnancy | |
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Pregnancy | |
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Childbirth | |
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Infertility | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Your Fertility | |
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Avoiding Or Overcoming Harmful Habits | |
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Licit and Illicit Drug Use: Understanding Addictions | |
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Defining Addiction | |
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Drug Dynamics | |
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Drug Use, Abuse, and Interactions | |
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Prescription Drugs | |
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Over-the-Counter Drugs | |
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Illicit Drugs | |
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Controlled Substances | |
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Illegal Drug Use in the United States | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Drug Use Behavior | |
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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine: Unacknowledged Addictions | |
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Alcohol: An Overview | |
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Effects of Alcohol | |
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Alcoholism | |
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Recovery | |
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Our Smoking Society | |
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Tobacco and Its Effects | |
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Health Hazards of Smoking | |
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Smokeless Tobacco | |
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Environmental Tobacco Smoke | |
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Quitting | |
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Caffeine | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine | |
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Building Healthy Lifestyles | |
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Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health | |
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Healthy Eating | |
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Obtaining Essential Nutrients | |
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The Medicinal Value of Food | |
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Gender and Nutrition | |
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Vegetarianism | |
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Improved Eating for the College Student | |
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Food Safety | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Your Eating Behavior | |
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Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance | |
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Body Image | |
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Assessing Your Body Content | |
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Risk Factors for Obesity | |
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Managing Your Weight | |
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Eating Disorders | |
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Taking Charge: Taking Control of Your Weight | |
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Personal Fitness: Improving Your Health Through Exercise | |
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Benefits of Regular Physical Activity | |
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Improving Cardiorespiratory Fitness | |
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Improving Your Flexibility | |
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Improving Muscular Strength and Endurance | |
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Body Composition | |
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Fitness Injuries | |
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Planning Your Fitness Program | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Your Fitness Behaviors | |
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Preventing And Fighting Disease | |
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Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: Reducing Your Risks | |
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Understanding Your Cardiovascular System | |
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Types of Cardiovascular Disease | |
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Controlling Your Risks for Cardiovascular Disease | |
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Women and Cardiovascular Disease | |
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New Weapons against Heart Disease | |
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An Overview of Cancer | |
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What Causes Cancer? | |
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Types of Cancer | |
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Facing Cancer | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Your Health | |
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Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions: Risks and Responsibilities | |
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Assessing Your Disease Risks | |
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The Pathogens: Routes of Invasion | |
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Your Body's Defenses: Keeping You Well | |
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Emerging and Resurgent Diseases | |
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Sexually Transmitted Infections | |
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HIV/AIDS | |
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Chronic Lung Diseases | |
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Neurological Disorders | |
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Gender-Related Disorders | |
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Digestion-Related Disorders | |
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Musculoskeletal Diseases | |
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Other Maladies | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Your Disease Risks | |
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Facing Life's Challenges | |
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Life's Transitions: The Aging Process | |
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Redefining Aging | |
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Health Issues for an Aging Society | |
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Theories on Aging | |
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Changes in the Body and Mind | |
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Health Challenges of the Elderly | |
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Preventive Actions for Healthy Aging | |
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Understanding Death and Dying | |
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The Process of Dying | |
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Taking Care of Business | |
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Life-and-Death Decision Making | |
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Taking Charge: Dealing with the Aging Process | |
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Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally | |
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Overpopulation | |
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Air Pollution | |
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Water Pollution | |
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Noise Pollution | |
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Land Pollution | |
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Radiation | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Environmental Pollution | |
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Consumerism: Selecting Health-Care Products and Services | |
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Responsible Consumerism | |
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Accepting Responsibility for Your Health Care | |
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Choices of Medical Care | |
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Health-Care Organizations, Programs, and Facilities | |
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Issues Facing Today's Health-Care System | |
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Third-Party Payers | |
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Taking Charge: Managing Your Health-Care Needs | |
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Appendixes | |
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Injury Prevention and Emergency Care | |
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices, New Responsibilities | |
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References | |
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Index | |