Includes bibliographical references and index.

Achieving personal health -- Mind-body communications maintain wellness -- Managing stress: restoring mind-body harmony -- Maintaining emotional wellness -- Choosing a nutritious diet -- Managing a healthy weight -- Physical activity for health and well-being -- Developing healthy intimate and sexual relationships -- Understanding pregnancy and parenthood -- Choosing a fertility control method -- Protecting against sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS -- Reducing infections and building immunity: knowledge encourages prevention -- Cancer: understanding risks and means of prevention -- Cardiovascular diseases: understanding risks and measures of prevention -- How genes affect health -- Using drugs responsibly -- Eliminating tobacco use -- Using alcohol responsibly -- Making decisions about health care -- Exploring alternative medicines -- Preventing unintentional injuries and accidents: what you can do -- Understanding aging and dying -- Violence in our society -- Working toward a healthy environment.