Health and Wellness, 9E

Health and Wellness, 9e

Gordon Edlin, PhD, University of Hawaii

Eric Golanty, Las Positas College

Jones and Bartlett Publishers

Transition Guide

What’s New to the Ninth Edition!

This Transition Guide outlines many of the changes and new content in the Ninth Edition. In addition to the features listed here, there are new learning objectives, new critical-thinking questions, updated references, updated statistics, updated website links for further exploration, and new feature boxes.

Specific Chapter Updates

Part 1: Achieving Wellness

Chapter 1: Achieving Personal Health

· Health Tip: Brushing and Flossing Your Teeth Can Prevent Health Problems replaced with Two Minute Stress Reducer

· Updated information on Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

· Healthy People 2010

· New section on Health Issues of College Students

· New Global Wellness Box: Chronic Disease in Rich and Poor Countries

Chapter 2: Mind-Body Communications Maintain Wellness

· Updated information on the mind-body connection, biofeedback, and preventing and recovering from illness, using your mind to heal your body, placebo effect

· New Managing Stress Box: Humor Therapy

· New sections on spirituality, religion, and health as well as virtual reality therapies

Chapter 3: Managing Stress

· Updated information on stress management and how stress occurs

· New Wellness Guide: Assessing Life Changes

· New coverage of how stress contributes to illness

· Updated information on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

· New information on coping processes

· Test anxiety and solutions

Chapter 4: Mental Health and Mental Illness

· Current coverage of mental illness

· Effect of positive thoughts and emotion on health

· Managing Stress: Humor therapy box moved to chapter 2

· New Managing Stress Box: Journal writing

· Dollars and Health Sense box: Drugs for Worries and Bad Habits changed to Drugs for Coping with Everyday Life

· Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

· Sleep deficit in America and insomnia

Part Two: Eating and Exercising Toward a Healthy Lifestyle

Chapter 5: Choosing a Nutritious Diet

· MyPyramid coverage integrated throughout chapter

· Portion sizes

· Coverage of benefits of whole wheat and trans fat labeling

Chapter 6: Managing a Healthy Weight

· Coverage of adherence to popular weight management diets

· The latest information on ineffective weight loss products/diets

Chapter 7: Physical Activity for Health and Well-Being

· Physical activity for health and fun: walking, yoga, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Pilates

· More information on aerobic exercise and strength training benefits

· Coverage of ergogenic aids, dietary supplements, anabolic steroids, HGH, ephedra

· Dollars and Health Sense: The Business of Sports Supplements—updated

· Preventing sports injuries

· Preventing cold stress (hypothermia, frostbite)

· Preventing hot stress (dehydration, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat stroke)

· First aid for sports injuries (R.I.C.E.)

Part 3: Building Healthy Relationships

Chapter 8: Sexuality and Intimate Relationships

· Updated information on erection problems and rapid ejaculation

Chapter 9: Understanding Pregnancy and Parenthood

· Safe physical activity during pregnancy

· New Health Tip Box: Phthalates affect genital development in males

· Updated labor information-induction of labor and episiotomy, cesareans

· In vitro fertilization and sperm sorting

· New Wellness Guide: Boy or Girl—Should Parents Have the Right to Choose?

Chapter 10: Choosing a Fertility Control Method

· Emergency contraception and medical abortion (early and late)

Chapter 11: Protecting Against Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS

· Trichomoniasis: Bacterial Vaginosis

· Updated information on the Human papillomavirus

· Global Wellness Box: China faces an STD crisis replaced with HIV/AIDS cover the globe

· Reducing the STD epidemic in the United States

· Dollars and Health Sense Box: Money Needed to Fight HIV/AIDS

Part 4: Understanding and Preventing Disease

Chapter 12: Reducing Infections and Building Immunity: Knowledge Encourages Prevention

· New Health Tip Boxes: Wash Your Hands and Getting Rid of Dust Mites May Help Allergies

· Global Wellness: A Fascinating Bit of Medical History—replaced with Travelers to other Countries Should Obtain Health Information and Disease Outbreak Alerts

· Antibiotics in Animal Feed

· Updated information on the Avian Flu Epidemic, Lyme Disease, Mad Cow Disease, West Nile Virus

· New Global Wellness Box: The Long, Expensive Road to a New Vaccine

· New Global Wellness Box: Successfully Preventing HIV Infections in Uganda—replaced AIDS in Africa

Chapter 13: Cancer: Understanding Risks and Means of Prevention

· New Health Tip: Abortion Does Not Increase Risk of Breast Cancer

· Updated information on surviving breast cancer

· New Wellness Guide Box: Testicular Cancer-Self Exam

· New Health Tip Boxes: A Vaccine to Prevent Cervical Cancer and Video Game to Help Kids Battle Cancer

Chapter 14: Cardiovascular Diseases: Understanding Risks and Measures of Prevention

· New information on alternatives to bypass surgery, stenting and carotid endarectomy

· Cholesterol, Statins, and Inflammation

· New Wellness Guide: Herbs, the Internet, and Hypertension

· Metabolic Syndrome

· Type A behavior and increased risk of cardiovascular disease

· New Health Tip Box: Air Pollution Around the Home Increases Risk of Heart Disease

· Trans fat labeling

· Global Wellness Box: Deaths from Cardiovascular Disease Are Increasing Worldwide

Chapter 15: Heredity and Disease

· New Global Wellness Box: Lactose Intolerance

· Updated information on Thalidomide

· Effects of drinking while pregnant and fetal alcohol syndrome

· Updated information on genetic counseling, genetic testing, and genetic discrimination

· Embryonic Stem Cells

Part 5: Explaining Drug Use and Abuse

Chapter 16: Using Drugs Responsibly

· New information on drug laws

· Dollars and Health Sense: Fast-Track Drug Approvals May Be Dangerous—replaced with How Drugs Companies Pick Your Pocket

· Lifestyle Drugs

· Drug company advertising

· The FDA how their decisions are made

· Club drugs: GHB, Ketamine, and Rohypnol

Chapter 17: Eliminating Tobacco Use

· New Wellness Guide: Lesser Known Health Hazards of Smoking

· New Health Tip: The Benefits of Quitting Smoking

· Tobacco advertising directed at women and youth

· Reducing tobacco’s damage on society

· New Global Wellness: Ireland Bans All Smoking in the Workplace

Chapter 18: Using Alcohol Responsibly

· New Health Tip: Signs of Alcohol Poisoning

· Standard portions of alcohol in alcoholic beverages

· New Global Wellness: Alcohol Abuse is a Worldwide Problem

Part 6: Making Healthy Choices

Chapter 19: Making Decisions About Health Care

· Choosing a Health Care provider and health care costs in other countries

· Descriptions of the responsibilities held by physician assistants, nurses, emergency medical technicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, sports medicine professionals

· New Managing Stress box: Health Care Professionalism versus Religious Beliefs

· Updated information on health insurance and fee-for-service plans

· New Health Tip: Whole Body CT Scan Neccessity

· Organ transplants and donating organs

Chapter 20: Exploring Alternative Medicines

· Explanation of alternative, complementary, integrative medicine

· Benefits and risks of herbal and dietary supplements including ephedra

· Biomagnetic therapy

· Medical quackery

Chapter 21: Preventing Unintentional Injuries and Accidents: What Can You Do?

· New Global Wellness box: Driving—The Rising Cost Worldwide

· Motorcycle, ATV and power scooter safety

· Firearm-related injuries and deaths

· New Health Tip: Self-extinguishing cigarettes prevent fires

Part 7: Overcoming Obstacles

Chapter 22: Understanding Aging and Dying

· New information on Alzheimer’s disease

· New Managing Stress box: Giving Up Driving is a Hard Decision

· New Health Tip: Steps You Can Take to Reduce the Risks of Dementia

· The impending health crisis: Osteoporosis

· Accepting aging and age-related vision loss and hearing loss

· Advance Directives (coverage of the Terry Schiavo case)

Chapter 23: Violence in Our Society

· Intimate partner violence

· Maltreatment of children

· Updated information on hate crimes, school violence, and violence in the media

Chapter 24: Working Toward a Healthy Environment

· New Dollars and Health Sense Box: The United States is the World’s Biggest Energy User

· New Global Wellness Box: Wind-Based Power Generation

· New Health Tip Boxes : Find out if the water you use at home is safe to drink and Recycle your rechargeable batteries

· Pesticides, environmental chemicals, and biomonitoring