Written to guide students developing healthy lifestyles while helping them better understand the policy decisions that encourage health, Personal Health: A Public Health Perspective uniquely provides information about individual health topics - including those of great interest and relevance to college-aged students - while presenting them in the context of community and global health. Thoroughly updated to reflect current statistics, research, treatments, and more, the Second Edition also includes coverage of COVID-19, including its impact on mental health, expanded coverage of the social determinants of health and health inequities, new material on violence prevention including sexual assault and gun control, different ways to approach healthy eating and helpful tips on incorporating exercise, and much more. Filled with examples from social media, websites, and the popular press as well as peer-reviewed publications, the Second Edition also is enlivened with numerous features including: - Try It! which applies topics from the text to the students' daily life. - Fact vs. Fiction which debunks popular health myths and explores controversies, - By the Numbers which displays relevant and often surprising statistics to further the students' understanding of the topics. - Up for Debate which describes current controversies in public health. - Going Upstream provides insights to help students think about predisposing factors to health, particularly social determinants of health. - Tales of Public Health which that are real-life stories to bring a human face to a concept