Payne, Wayne A.

Understanding your health. / Wayne A. Payne, Dale B. Hann and Ellen B. Lucas - 9th ed. - Boston: McGraw Hil, c2007. - xxxiv, 643 p.: ill.; 27cm.

Includes index.

Contents: The Mind: Achieving -- Psychological health -- Managing stress -- The Body: Becoming physically fit -- Understanding nutrition and your diet -- Maintaining a healthy weight -- Preventing drug abuse and dependence: Making decisions about drug use -- Taking control of alcohol use -- Rejecting tobacco use -- Preventing diseases: Enhancing your cardiovascular health -- Living with cancer -- Managing chronic conditions -- Preventing infectious diseases -- Sexuality and reproduction: exploring the origins of sexuality -- Understanding sexual behavior and relationships -- Managing your fertility -- Becoming a parent -- Consumer and safety issues: Becoming an informed health care consumer -- Protecting your safety -- The Environment and your health -- Completing life's journey: Accepting dying and death -- Appendix.

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