دانلود کتاب My Health

For students today, health is headline news. Whether it’s the latest
cases of life-threatening E. coli infections from eating infected
produce, a deadly Ebola epidemic threatening to kill millions, a
new environmental catastrophe brought on by global warming,
or increasing rates of obesity and diabetes, the issues often seem
overwhelming. However, although many things that influence our
health are beyond our control, we are lucky that we do have control
over many of the health risks we face. Health is multifaceted, and
achieving it is a personal and societal responsibility.
As I have taught personal health courses over the past two
decades, I have seen changes in students, especially regarding their
health, their health concerns, and the way they assimilate information
and make decisions about their health and the health of those
around them. A new mode of instruction and a new approach to
learning is required for instructors and textbook authors to present
and relay scientifically valid information, create learning environments
that meet diverse needs, and motivate students to engage
in their own learning experiences. Students today want their information
to be organized and concise. They want to know what they
should be learning, see the relevance in knowing the information
so that they can apply it to real world situations, and be able to test
themselves to confirm that they understand the material. What’s
more, students and their instructors want to be able to demonstrate
that they know more about their health, see things with a
more critical eye, and have options for making changes to improve
their health and the health of others as a result of a particular
course or course sequence. When they want to delve more deeply
into a given topic, they will have the skills and resources to get more
information. For these reasons and more, I decided that the time
had come to bring to fruition a new textbook that would change
the health text marketplace. I decided to tap the creative minds of
my colleagues and students and work with a great publishing company
in writing My Health: The MasteringHealth Edition.