Access to Health

by Rebecca J. Donatelle

Access to Health continues to be the leading text for teaching behavior change. The Ninth Edition provides a consistent framework for motivating readers to make healthy life choices, with updated coverage on hot topics such as low-carb diets and diabetes that demonstrate the relevance of health to reader's lives. As a teacher, mentor, and researcher, Rebecca J. Donatelle knows the health issues that are important to today's society. Through her engaging and friendly writing style, Donatelle addresses readers' concerns and teaches them how to be savvy and critical consumers of health information. Access to Health provides hands-on practical tools that help readers make healthy changes in their lives. Finding the Right Balance, Creating Healthy and Caring Relationships, Choosing a Healthy Lifestyle, Avoiding Risks to Harmful Habits, Preventing and Fighting Disease, Facing Life's Challenges. For all readers interested in making healthy life choices.

Genres: Nonfiction

776 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 1988

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Straight up, Access to Health: Green Edition is a book that rewards a second read way more than a first. Rebecca J. Donatelle tucks half the good stuff into the corners, and I missed most of it the first time around. The first pass is a bit bumpy. Great for re-readers, skip if you only read once.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rebecca J. Donatelle gives a street-smart breakdown in Access to Health: Green Edition of how compliance gets gamified until people willingly participate in their own containment.

[Micah · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a terrible health book. It is designed only to make the reader feel bad about themselves and it does nothing but reinforce cultural beauty norms and ideas on race/class/gender/sex/sexuality/mental health on and on. It's also just factually incorrect in many areas. Maybe the biggest flaw with the book is that most of it is "these things are bad. Don't do it" Very rarely does it talk to you about proper ways to change the behaviors it deems poor. It doesn't provide options for many things. It's such a bad and broken book. It also does this thing where it shows pictures of really troubling things (self mutilation, domestic violence, sexual assault) and it does them in bad history channel reenactment ways. Some of the models are even smiling in these scenes. It's a fucking joke. The book needs taken off the market.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Whew! As much as I enjoy reading about human sexual anatomy, infectious diseases, illicit drug use and abortion options, I'm stoked to be finished with this book and my first quarter of school:)