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Featuring 13 chapters of essential personal health content in a brief handbook format, and accompanied by 66 online, assignable health articles, Personal Health: A Concise Guide, offers a truly innovative approach to teaching the personal health course.

Personal Health: A Concise Guide, was designed to highlight visual appeal, brevity, portability, and function while focusing on the essential topics in health that are most fundamental to overall wellness. The text covers the core principles and common language of personal health and distills content down into small, manageable portions.

The focus on core content gives instructors more time for exploring special topics or issues during class sessions, supported by 66 articles assignable via Connect Personal Health. Together, the concise text and Connect give instructors ample opportunities to elicit and promote greater student engagement.

Phillip B. Sparling is a Professor of Applied Physiology and Health Behavior in the College of Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and masters and doctorate from the University of Georgia. In addition to being a teacher and researcher at Georgia Tech for three decades, he has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cape Town Medical School in South Africa, a Senior Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, and a Visiting Research Professor in the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland in Australia. He has published some 70 peer-reviewed articles in scientific and medical journals. Dr. Sparling is a Fellow of the AAHPERD Research Consortium, American College of Sports Medicine, National Academy of Kinesiology, and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. His current work focuses on real-world projects that enable individuals and communities to change lifestyle behaviors to prevent and control chronic diseases.