Includes bibliographical references and index.

Quest: Health in the new millennium -- Psychological health: Healthy personality; Stress and your health; Psychological disorders -- Healthful lifestyles: Nutrition for life; Managing your weight; Fitness for life -- Building and maintaining healthy relationships: Healthy relationships; Gender and sexuality; Conception, contraception, and abortion; Pregnancy and childbirth -- Making responsible decisions about drugs: Drug use and abuse; Responsible drinking; Cigarette smoking and other tobacco use -- Communicable and chronic diseases: Understanding infection and immunity; AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases; Cardiovascular health; Combating cancer and other major chronic diseases -- Aging: Healthy aging in the new millennium; Life's final passage -- Health and society: Violence and abuse; Health and the environment; Managing your health care -- Glossary.

How can we prepare ourselves and our students for the health challenges that await us. This book can help to find the answers.... This book is written ... to provide students with the skills they need to meet challenges to their health and optimize their physical and psychological well-being. [The book] offers the necessary breadth and currency of coverage. [The authors] examine topics including fitness, nutrition, mental health, and infectious and chronic diseases in a way that distills the most important information and makes it accessible and interesting to readers. -Pref.