Access to Health [with MasteringHealth, and eText Access Card]

by Rebecca J. Donatelle, Patricia Ketcham

The newly revised Access to Health, Twelfth Edition makes health more accessible for students to learn, for instructors to teach, and for individuals to achieve. Long known for its currency, research, and strength in behavior change for personal health students, Access to Health provides just that: "access "to health information and your own health potential through a consistent framework that will motivate you to make healthy life choices. The Twelfth Edition ramps up the accessibility of good health with an eye-popping design, imaginative art, unique Focus On chapters, and robust media. The tools for behavior change have been expanded in this edition with a completely re-written introductory chapter focusing on the steps needed to change your behavior, individually-designed self-assessments, and new media, including an enhanced Live It section and a new On the Go section in both MyHealthLab(R) and the Companion Website. As a teacher, mentor, and researcher, Rebecca J. Donatelle knows the health issues that are important to you. Through her engaging and friendly writing style, Donatelle addresses your concerns and teaches you how to be a savvy and critical consumer of health information. Access to Health provides hands-on practical tools that will help you access healthy changes in your life.

Genres: Nonfiction

768 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 1988

Reviews

[Micah · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a terrible health book. It is designed only to make the reader feel bad about themselves and it does nothing but reinforce cultural beauty norms and ideas on race/class/gender/sex/sexuality/mental health on and on. It's also just factually incorrect in many areas. Maybe the biggest flaw with the book is that most of it is "these things are bad. Don't do it" Very rarely does it talk to you about proper ways to change the behaviors it deems poor. It doesn't provide options for many things. It's such a bad and broken book. It also does this thing where it shows pictures of really troubling things (self mutilation, domestic violence, sexual assault) and it does them in bad history channel reenactment ways. Some of the models are even smiling in these scenes. It's a fucking joke. The book needs taken off the market.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Whew! As much as I enjoy reading about human sexual anatomy, infectious diseases, illicit drug use and abortion options, I'm stoked to be finished with this book and my first quarter of school:)