Personal Health: A Concise Guide 2009 Early Release Version with Connect Personal Health Access Card - Softcover

Sparling,Phillip; Redican,Kerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0077321456 ISBN 13: 9780077321451

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2008

Synopsis

Featuring 13 chapters of essential personal health content in a brief handbook format, and accompanied by 66 online, assignable health articles, Personal Health: A Concise Guide, offers a truly innovative approach to teaching the personal health course.

Personal Health: A Concise Guide, was designed to highlight visual appeal, brevity, portability, and function while focusing on the essential topics in health that are most fundamental to overall wellness. The text covers the core principles and common language of personal health and distills content down into small, manageable portions.

The focus on core content gives instructors more time for exploring special topics or issues during class sessions, supported by 66 articles assignable via Connect Personal Health. Together, the concise text and Connect give instructors ample opportunities to elicit and promote greater student engagement.

About this title

About the Author:

Phillip B. Sparling is a Professor of Applied Physiology and Health Behavior in the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech. He received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and masters and doctorate from the University of Georgia. In addition to being a teacher and researcher at Georgia Tech for three decades, he has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cape Town Medical School in South Africa, a Visiting Research Professor in the School of Health Sciences at Deakin University in Australia, and a Senior Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. He has published some 70 peer-reviewed articles in scientific and medical journals. Dr. Sparling is a Fellow of the AAHPERD Research Consortium, American College of Sports Medicine, and American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education. His current work focuses on real-world projects that enable individuals and communities to change lifestyle behaviors to prevent and control chronic diseases.

Kerry J. Redican is a Professor of Health Education and Health Promotion in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech. His education includes a bachelors degree from California State University at Long Beach, M.S. in health education from the UCLA School of Public Health, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and MPH in health administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a faculty member at Virginia Tech for over two decades, he has been actively involved in development, implementation, and evaluation of health education programs in schools and communities. He is a co-author of four textbooks and has over 60 publications in health journals. Dr. Redican is a Fellow of the American School Health Association and has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Health Education and as President of the Virginia Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0077321456
• ISBN 13: 9780077321451
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 465