Health and Wellness

Contents: 1. The importance of good health. 2. How to keep healthy. 3. The bones and joints. 4. The muscles. 5. First aid treatment of injuries to the bones, joints and muscles. 6. Posture and the feet. 7. Fresh air and sunshine. 8. The circulation. 9. Foods and the digestive system. 10. The nervous system. 11. The skin, nails and hair. 12. The eyes. 13. The ears. 14. The teeth. 15. Ourselves and other. 16. Health progress in ancient times. 17. Decay of health in the middle ages. 18. Pathfinders of health. 19. Some diseases that threaten the nation\'s health. 20. How preventive medicine serves us. 21. How public health services are organized. 22. Safety. 23. Tips for sound health.

"The material in this book entitled Health and Wellness is sufficiently technical to be challenging but the author is careful to give emphasis to its practical application in daily life. Heath practices are made reasonable and intelligible. The book discusses the fundamentals of health and wellness.

The present book has written specially for the students of health education and its related fields and it is valuable to the pupil both as a reference in health teaching and as a means of consolidating learnings form class discussions. The scope of the book makes it useful and adaptable to any secondary school course.

The present study will prove very useful for the health educators, students of health education, as well as for the general readers." (jacket)