Gordon Edlin, Eric Golanty

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Health & Wellness with Navigate Advantage Access

Beschreibung

"Health & Wellness courses are typically elective in nature, with no standard curriculum in 4YR and 2YR institutions. The courses most often pertain to a major or minor in a Health Care area of interest. The healthcare field encompasses numerous professions, including but not limited to nursing, dentistry, physical therapy, optometry, and podiatry. Degrees in healthcare include courses in biology, psychology, anatomy, and other physical and social sciences. Health education is a social science that draws from the biological, environmental, psychological, physical and medical sciences to promote health and prevent disease, disability and premature death through education-driven voluntary behavior change activities. Health education is the development of individual, group, institutional, community and systemic strategies to improve health knowledge, attitudes, skills and behavior"--

Autor

Gordon Edlin, PhD, has a bachelor's degree in physics from MIT and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Oregon. He was a professor of genetics at the University of California, Davis, for 22 years, where his research focused on the molecular biology of microorganisms. His interest in health was dramatically increased after he was tear-gassed on the Berkeley campus in the late 1960s while protesting the Vietnam War. Although his approach to health and medicine is scientific, he also has considerable experience with alternative medicines. Eric Golanty is professor emeritus of health and wellness at Las Positas College in Livermore, California. He has a bachelor's and a master's degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in human development and family studies from the University of California, Davis. He has taught personal health and human sexuality and supervised peer health counseling and health educator training at Las Positas College and UC Davis. He has taught personal health online since 2000 and has developed distance learning programs and trained faculty in educational uses of the Internet. He is co-author of the college texts'Health and Wellness,'Human Sexuality: The Basics, and'Human Reproduction. He also is co-author of the pocket handbook'First Aid for Sports Injuries'and author of the self-help book,'How to Prevent and Help Heal Running and Other Sports Injuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
• 14th edition
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 213mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 739g
• ISBN-13: 9781284235197
• ISBN-10: 128423519X
• Artikelnr.: 63302604