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1: Understanding Your Health and Wellness
1.1: Defining Health and Wellness
1.2: Health and Wellness Knowledge
1.3: Personal Skills for Health and Wellness
1.4: Our Healthcare System
2: Risk Factors: Behavior, Genes, Environment
2.1: Factors Affecting Health and Wellness
2.2: Behavioral Risk Factors
2.3: Genetic Risk Factors
2.4: Environmental and Socioeconomic Risk Factors
3: Nutrition
3.1: What Nutrients Does Your Body Need?
3.2: Creating a Healthy Eating Plan
3.3: Food Labels and Food Safety
4: Body Weight and Composition
4.1: What Is a Healthy Weight?
4.2: Factors that Influence Weight
4.3: Treatment and Prevention of Weight Problems
5: Body Image
5.1: Factors that Influence Body Image
5.2: What Are Eating Disorders?
5.3: Treating and Preventing Body Image Issues
6: Physical Fitness
6.1: The Benefits of Improved Physical Fitness
6.2: The Components of Physical Fitness
6.3: Fitness Safety
7: Sleep
7.1: Getting Enough Sleep
7.2: The Science behind Sleeps
7.3: Common Sleeping Problems
7.4: Strategies for Getting the Sleep You Need
8: Personal Hygiene and Basic Healthcare
8.1: Taking Care of Your Skin, Hair, and Nails
8.2: Common Skin Problems
8.3: Keeping Your Mouth, Eyes, and Ears Healthy
9: Tobacco
9.1: The Health Effects of Tobacco
9.2: Why People Use Tobacco
9.3: Treating and Preventing Nicotine Addiction
10: Alcohol
10.1: How Does Alcohol Impact Your Body?
10.2: The Effects of Alcohol on Health
10.3: Reasons People Use and Abuse Alcohol
10.4: Strategies for Preventing and Treating Alcohol Abuse
11: Medications and Drugs
11.1: Medications
11.2: Drugs
11.3: Drug Abuse and Addiction
12: Infectious Diseases
12.1: Infectious Diseases: What You Should Know
12.2: Transmission, Treatment, and Prevention of Infectious Diseases
12.3: Immunity to Infection
13: Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS
13.1: Sexually Transmitted Infections: What You Should Know
13.2: Common STIs
13.3: HIV/AIDS
14: Noncommunicable Diseases
14.1: Noncommunicable Diseases: What You Should Know
14.2: Diseases of the Blood Vessels and Heart
14.3: Cancer: Cells out of Control
14.4: Diabetes, Allergies, Asthma, and Arthritis
15: Achieving Mental and Emotional Health
15.1: Making Sense of Your Emotions
15.2: Establishing Your Identity
15.3: Understanding Self-Esteem
15.4: Improving Your Mental and Emotional Health
16: Managing the Stress in Your Life
16.1: What Is Stress?
16.2: Stress and Your Physical Health
16.3: Stress and Your Intellectual and Emotional Health
16.4: Managing Stress
17: Mental Illnesses and Disorders
17.1: Types of Mental Illnesses and Disorders
17.2: What Causes Mental Illnesses?
17.3: Understanding and Preventing Suicide
17.4: Getting Help for Mental Illnesses and Disorders
18: Healthy Family and Peer Relationships
18.1: Healthy Family Relationships
18.2: Healthy Friendships
18.3: Healthy Dating Relationships
19: Dealing with Conflict, Violence, and Abuse
19.1: Understanding Conflict
19.2: Understanding Violent Behavior
19.3: The Reality of Family Violence
19.4: Unwanted Sexual Activity
20: Reproduction and Pregnancy
20.1: Sexual Reproduction
20.2: The Human Reproductive System
20.3: Pregnancy
20.4: Prenatal Care and Pregnancy Problems
20.5: Reproductive System Diseases and Disorders
21: Childbirth and Parenting Newborns
21.1: Childbirth and the First Days
21.2: Newborn Care
21.3: Newborn Nutrition, Growth, and Development
21.4: Bonding, Communication, and Parenting Issues
21.5: Teen Parents
22: Human Development across the Life Span
22.1: Human Development: The Unfolding Self
22.2: Infancy through the Preschool Years
22.3: The School-Age and Adolescent Years
22.4: Adulthood and the Nature of Aging
22.5: The End of Life
23: Pregnancy Prevention
23.1: Family Planning and the Role of Abstinence
23.2: Condoms and Other Barrier Methods
23.3: Hormonal Methods, IUDs, and Emergency Contraception
23.4: Natural Methods and Sterilization
24: Understanding Sexuality
24.1: Understanding Sexual Feelings and Behavior
24.2: What Is Sexuality?
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