An Invitation to Health

In this new edition of the market-leading personal health text, Dianne Hales invites your students to choose to change through her emphasis on behavior change and practical ways to turn concepts into action. Delivering the most current and thorough coverage available, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: CHOOSING TO CHANGE integrates a comprehensive presentation of health concepts--body, mind, and spirit--with a wealth of applications for the students’ lives, including Your Strategies for Change, Your Strategies for Prevention and Your Health Action Plan. New to this edition is a feature called Making Change Happen, which provides a four-step plan for implementing change in a particular area. To encourage students to think about change in a more community-oriented context, Dianne Hales includes Community Focus boxes in many of the chapters, and recognizing the impact of the current economic environment, she has created a feature called Health on a Budget. The most student-oriented text on the market, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: CHOOSING TO CHANGE is packed with relevant examples, colorful photos, figures, and new research and statistics presented in an engaging way. This complete textbook program provides an outstanding set of resources for both students and instructors to accomplish key goals of the course and reinforce learning. Choose AN INVITATION TO HEALTH for your course and motivate your students to change. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.