Includes index.

Contents: Finding the right balance: Promoting healthy behaviour change -- Psychosocial health: achieving mental, emotional, social and spiritual wellness -- Managing stress: toward prevention and control -- Personal safety: reducing violence, abuse and injury -- Creating healthy and caring relationships: Healthy relationships and sexuality: making commitments -- Birth control, pregnancy and childbirth: managing your fertility -- Building healthy lifestyles: Nutrition: eating for optimum health -- Managing your weight: finding a healthy balance -- Personal fitness: Improving your health through exercise -- Avoiding or reducing harmful habits: Licit and illicit drug use: understanding addictions -- Alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine; unacknowledged drugs with risk for addictions -- Preventing and fighting disease: Cardiovascular disease and cancer: reducing your risks -- Infectious and noninfectious conditions: risks and responsibilities -- Facing life's challenges: Life's transitions: the aging process -- Environmental health: thinking globally, acting locally -- Consumerism: using healthcare products and services.