The Ninth Edition of Donatelle’s book is a Green Edition, written, produced and manufactured with an emphasis on environmental responsibility. The book presents readers with Ideas for Thriving, focusing on the concept of wellness and on developing positive behaviors that contribute not just to health, but also to well-being and thriving. This current, user-friendly book holds readers’ interest by covering health topics of primary concern to them, and provides readers with the tools they need to make healthy, lifelong behavior changes and become savvy consumers of health information.

Now enhanced with an even more comprehensive package of support materials, this edition makes teaching and learning personal health easier than ever. The Green Edition includes an environmental feature; new mini-chapters; a brand new art program with a new, lively design; and additional content on behavior change; in addition to a robust and expanded supplements package. The Teaching Tool Box, the Instructor Resource DVD with 30 new ABC News videos, the revamped website, the anonymous MyHealthLab self-assessments, which speak to the gradebook, the updated Test Bank utilizing Bloom’s Taxonomy to categorize questions, and the Teaching Health & Wellness Community website all help professors teach and assess readers better and more easily than ever before.

Key Topics: The Basics of Healthy Change,  Psychosocial Health, Managing Your Stress, Your Sleep, Violence and Abuse, Healthy Relationships and Sexuality, Your Reproductive Choices, Addiction and Drug Use, Alcohol and Tobacco, Nutrition and You, Managing Your Weight, Your Body Image, Personal Fitness, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer, Your Risk for Diabetes,  Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions, Aging, Death, and Dying, Environmental Health, Your Spirituality, Savvy Health Care Consumerism,

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Market: Intended for readers interested in learning the basics of health

The newly revised Access to Health, Eleventh Edition  features a reader-friendly design, an environmentally conscious Green Guide, and the best reader and instructor supplements package on the market, including an enhanced Teaching Tool Box with a more robust assessment program. Long known for its currency, research, and strength in behavior change for personal health readers, the Eleventh Edition of Access to Health provides a consistent framework for motivating readers to make healthy life choices. The revised edition’s updated coverage includes more emphasis on assessment, and new Skills for Behavior Change boxes. 

As a teacher, mentor, and researcher, Rebecca J. Donatelle knows the health issues that are important to today’s readers. Through her engaging and friendly writing style, Donatelle addresses students’ 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.

Promoting Health Behavior Change, Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well, Managing Stress: Coping with Life’s Challenges, Violence and Abuse: Creating Health Environments, Healthy Relationships: Communicating Effectively with Friends, Family, and Significant Others, Sexuality: Choices in Sexual Behavior, Reproductive Choices: Making Responsible Decisions, Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health, Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance, Personal Fitness: Improving Health Through Exercise, Addictions and Addictive Behavior: Threats to Wellness, Drinking Resonsibly: A Lifestyle Challenge on Campus, Tobacco and Caffeine: Daily Pleasures, Daily Challenges, Illicit Drugs: Use Misuse, and Abuse, Cardiovascular Disease: Reducing Your Risk, Cancer: Reducing Your Risk, Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Risks and Responsibilities, Noninfectious Conditions: The Modern Maladies, Life’s Transitions: The Aging Process, Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, Consumerism: Selecting Health Care Products and Services, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices and Responsibilities for Healthwise Consumers. Intended for those interested in learning the basics of health