Access to Health, 16th Edition

Reach every student by pairing this text with Mastering Health 

Mastering™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and improves results for each student. With a variety  of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult personal health concepts. Learn more about Mastering Health.

Increase student engagement and encourage behavior change for overall better health

• A Behavior Change Contract for students to fill out is included at the back of the book help set them up for success.
  
• Numerous opportunities for students to engage with the material and consider specific behavior change strategies, including:
  
• Skills for Behavior Change focus on practical strategies students can use to improve health or reduce their risks from negative health behaviors.
  
• Assess Yourself help students evaluate their health behaviors.
  
• Making Changes Today boxes give students situation-specific techniques for making lasting changes to health behaviors.
  
• What Do You Think? critical-thinking questions appear throughout the text, encouraging students to pause and reflect on the material they’ve just read.
  
• Points of View present a controversial health issue and explain opposing viewpoints on the issue, encouraging students to critically evaluate information and consider their own stance.
  

Help students connect what they read in their textbooks to their world

• New - Mindfulness Theme, including why this topic is so important to health, how to practice it, and potential current and long-range benefits, has been added as feature boxes as well as integrated throughout the narrative and signaled by a new mindfulness icon
  
• New -Mindfulness and You boxes focus on mindfulness research and applications in relation to high interest topics such as sleep, technostress, mental health, sexual dysfunction, etc.
  
• New - Focus on Difference, Disparity and Health Equity chapter challenges students to think about issues of diversity and health equity, and the actions they can take as individuals and as a society to begin to remove barriers and promote access to health for all.
  
• Expanded! Focus on Mindfulness, Spiritual Health, and Spiritual Identity chapter has expanded to include an introduction to mindfulness as well as the definition of and recent research surrounding spiritual identity.
  
• Money & Health covers elements of the financial or economic world that impact personal health.
  
• Why Should I Care? opens each chapter and addresses the relevance of health issues to students’ lives by presenting information on the effect poor health habits have on them in the here and now.
  

Reach every student with Mastering 

• Teach your course your way: Your course is unique. So whether you’d like to build your own auto-graded assignments, foster student engagement during class, or give students anytime, anywhere access, Mastering gives you the flexibility to easily create your course to fit your needs.
  
• Dynamic Study Modules help students study effectively—and at their own pace. How? By keeping them motivated and engaged. The assignable modules rely on the latest research in cognitive science, using methods—such as adaptivity, gamification, and intermittent rewards—to stimulate learning and improve retention. Each module poses a series of questions about a course topic. These question sets adapt to each student’s performance and offer personalized, targeted feedback to help them master key concepts.
  
• With Learning Catalytics, you’ll hear from every student when it matters most. You pose a variety of questions that help students recall ideas, apply concepts, and develop critical-thinking skills. Your students respond using their own smartphones, tablets, or laptops.  You can monitor responses with real-time analytics and find out what your students do — and don’t — understand. Then, you can adjust your teaching accordingly and even facilitate peer-to-peer learning, helping students stay motivated and engaged. Updated for this edition: newly added clicker questions from the Instructor Resource Materials. All questions will be specifically tagged to Access to Health and Personal Health.
  

• New - Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within Mastering. It allows students to easily highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place—even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class.

• Empower each learner: Each student learns at a different pace. Personalized learning, including adaptive tools and wrong-answer feedback, pinpoints the precise areas where each student needs practice and gives all students the support they need — when and where they need it — to be successful.
• 10 Interactive Behavior Change Activities--Which Path Would You Take? allow students to explore various health choices through an engaging, interactive, low-stakes, and anonymous experience. These activities show students the possible consequences of various choices they make today on their future health; these activities are linked out to Mastering from the book and made assignable in Mastering with follow-up questions.
  
• Behavior Change Videos guide your students through the best tips and practices to put better decision making into action and review basic fitness concepts. These concise whiteboard-style videos help students with the steps of behavior change, covering topics such as setting SMART goals, identifying and overcoming barriers to change, planning realistic timelines, and more. Additional videos review key fitness concepts such as determining target heart rate range for exercise. All videos include assessment activities and are assignable in Mastering Health.
  
• Health Tough Topics Coaching Activities Health guide your students through key health and fitness concepts with interactive mini-lessons that provide hints and wrong-answer feedback.
  
• 51 ABC News Videos help your students see how health relates to the real world and spark discussion with up-to-date hot topics in the field.
  
• Updated - NutriTools Coaching Activities in the nutrition chapter allow students to combine and experiment with different food options and learn firsthand how to build healthier meals.
  
• Deliver trusted content: We partner with highly respected authors to develop interactive content and course-specific resources that keep students on track and engaged.
  
• New - MyDietAnalysis is included with Mastering Health at no additional charge, and offers an up-to-date, accurate, reliable, and easy-to-use program for your students’ diet analysis needs. Featured is a database of nearly 50,000 foods and multiple reports. Students can track their diet and activity intake accurately—anytime and anywhere—from any device!
  
• Updated - Prebuilt Assignments with 20 Pre-lecture Reading Questions per chapter ensure that students come prepared for lecture by answering multiple-choice questions related to content within the text.
  
• Updated - Study Plans tie all end-of-chapter material (including chapter review, pop quiz, and Think About It questions) to specific numbered Learning Outcomes and Mastering assets. Assignable study plan items contain at least one multiple-choice question per Learning Outcome and wrong-answer feedback.
  
• Improve student results: When you teach with Mastering, student performance often improves. That’s why instructors have chosen Mastering for over 15 years, touching the lives of over 20 million students.