Core Concepts in Health 4th Canadian Edition By Jennifer Irwin, Shauna Burke, Claire Insel, Walton Roth, Paul Insel
eBook[PDF]

Core Concepts in Health 4th Canadian Edition By Jennifer Irwin, Shauna Burke, Claire Insel, Walton Roth, Paul Insel

$30.00
✓ Secure checkout
✓ Instant digital download
✓ PDF document

Document details

Pages
871
File size
35.12 MB
Format
Digital PDF
Category
eBook[PDF]
About this ebook
The Fourth Canadian Edition of Core Concepts in Health by Jennifer Irwin, Shauna Burke, Claire Insel, and Walton T. Roth is a market-leading personal health resource built around holistic well-being, lifestyle self-responsibility, and evidence-based strategies. [1, 2, 3]
The textbook spans 19 chapters mapped across major foundational themes, with updated features focusing heavily on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), updated Indigenous health perspectives in Canada, and "Spotting Misinformation" critical-thinking guides. [1, 2, 3]
Core Topics & Chapter Framework
1. Establishing a Basis for Wellness
  • Taking Charge of Your Health: Concepts of holistic health vs. wellness, behavior change tracking, readiness to change models, and the Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy. [1, 2, 3]
  • Psychological Health: Achieving spiritual and emotional wellness, self-esteem, understanding psychological disorders (anxiety, mood disorders, schizophrenia), and navigating mental health support (including traditional Indigenous healing systems). [1, 2]
  • Stress: Understanding stress biology, its short- and long-term impacts on the body, and active stress management techniques. [1, 2]
  • Sleep: (New to the 4th Edition) An entirely new standalone chapter exploring sleep biology, sleep architecture, and the crucial relationship between proper sleep and overall disease prevention. [1]
2. Getting Fit & Lifestyle Management
  • Weight Management: Evaluating healthy body compositions, understanding genetic and metabolic factors, and managing weight responsibly.
  • Nutrition Basics: Exploring macro/micronutrients, dietary guidelines, and evaluating Canadian food policies.
  • Physical Activity & Exercise: Developing personalized physical fitness plans for cardiorespiratory endurance, strength, and overall longevity. [1, 2, 3, 4]
3. Protecting Yourself from Disease
  • Cardiovascular Health & Cancer: Risk factors, lifestyle-based disease prevention, and modern medical treatments for heart disease and various forms of cancer. [1, 2]
  • Immunity & Infection: Understanding the immune system, vectors of transmission, and preventing common bacterial, viral, and chronic infectious diseases. [1, 2]
4. Understanding Sexuality & Relationships
  • Intimate Relationships and Communication: Navigating interpersonal connections, communication dynamics, and social health.
  • Sexuality & Your Body: Biological and physiological components of human sexuality.
  • Contraception & Abortion: Comprehensive, evidence-based exploration of birth control methods and reproductive care choices. [1, 2]
5. Substance Use: Making Responsible Decisions
  • Drug Use and Addiction: Examining the biological and behavioral aspects of psychoactive drug dependency.
  • Alcohol & Nicotine: Short-term and long-term health risks associated with drinking, smoking, vaping, and targeted cessation strategies. [1, 2]
6. Living Well in the World & Accepting Limits
  • Environmental Health: The intersection of human behavior, ecosystems, pollution, and public wellness.
  • Conventional and Complementary Medicine: Navigating Canada's health care system and critically evaluating alternative health options.
  • The Challenge of Aging, Dying, and Death: Embracing physical limits, coping with aging, and emotional frameworks for end-of-life care. [1, 2, 3, 4]

File included

PDF
eBook-EPUB-Core-Concepts-in-Health-4th-Canadian-Edition-By-Jennifer-Irwin-Shauna-Burke-Claire-Insel-Walton-Roth-Paul-Insel.pdf 35.12 MB

Topics

Alcohol & Nicotine: Short-term and long-term health risks cessation strategies Cardiovascular Health & Cancer: Risk factors lifestyle-based disease prevention Contraception & Abortion: birth control methods and reproductive care choices Conventional and Complementary Medicine: Canada's health care system and alternative health options coping with aging and emotional frameworks for end-of-life care Drug Use and Addiction: biological and behavioral aspects of psychoactive drug dependency Environmental Health: human behavior ecosystems pollution and public wellness Establishing a Basis for Wellness Getting Fit & Lifestyle Management Immunity & Infection: Understanding the immune system vectors of transmission Intimate Relationships and Communication: connections communication dynamics and social health Living Well in the World & Accepting Limits models and the Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy navigating mental health support (including traditional Indigenous healing systems) Nutrition Basics: macro/micronutrients dietary guidelines and evaluating Canadian food policies Physical Activity & Exercise: physical fitness plans for cardiorespiratory endurance strength and overall longevity preventing common bacterial viral and chronic infectious diseases Protecting Yourself from Disease Psychological Health: Achieving spiritual and emotional wellness self-esteem Sexuality & Your Body: Biological and physiological components of human sexuality Sleep: sleep architecture and the crucial relationship between proper sleep and overall disease prevention Stress: Understanding stress biology its short- and long-term impacts on the body Substance Use: Making Responsible Decisions Taking Charge of Your Health: Concepts of holistic health vs. wellness behavior change The Challenge of Aging Dying and Death: Embracing physical limits understanding psychological disorders (anxiety mood disorders schizophrenia) Understanding Sexuality & Relationships Weight Management: Evaluating healthy body compositions understanding genetic and metabolic factors
Related ebooks