It's not just Personal Your Health Today teaches personal health from a truly inclusive and socially responsible perspective. While each of us has a unique set of individual characteristics that shape our health, other environmental factors have an impact on our well being too. Your Health Today incorporates the individual, interpersonal, and broader social factors that affect our health, acting as a guide for healthy living in college and beyond.

The student-focused features in the fifth edition of Your Health Today highlight current topics, illustrate concepts with new photos and graphs, and invite dialogues among personal health students. For every chapter, the following features serve as entry points to classroom discussion, critical thought, and practical application of health concepts to students' lives.