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Behavioral medicine is extremely broad. It seeks to understand the full range of psychosocial, behavioral, biomedical, and ecological influences on health and illness and to apply that knowledge to prevention, etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disease, health challenges, and problems. This chapter reviews both the breadth of influences behavioral medicine includes and the variety of health concerns to which it is applied. It also documents how “behavior matters,” how behavioral influences have substantial impacts across diseases, mortality, disease impacts and disability, and quality of life. It traces the intellectual roots of behavioral medicine in behaviorism, cognitive psychology, psychosomatic medicine, and public health. It goes on to examine key cross-cutting concepts in behavioral medicine, including (a) the nature of behavior and behavior change versus biological and clinical medical perspectives, (b) the fundamental influence of behavior and environment on genetic expression as well as of genes on behavior, (c) reciprocal influence and the ever-present importance of context, (d) responsibility of individuals and communities, and (e) the value of global perspectives.

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  1. 1.

    This section is drawn from a paper co-authored by Fisher and his colleagues, Marian Fitzgibbon, Russell Glasgow, Debra Haire-Joshu, Laura Hayman, Robert Kaplan, Marilyn Nanney, and Judith Ockene. We are indebted to them for providing permission to draw at length from their paper, the full citation of which is, Fisher, E. B., Fitzgibbon, M. L., Glasgow, R. E., Haire-Joshu, D., Hayman, L. L., Kaplan, R. M., Nanney, M.S., & Ockene, J. K. (2011). Behavior matters. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 40(5), e15–30.

  2. 2.

    This section is drawn from a paper co-authored by Fisher and his colleagues, Marian Fitzgibbon, Russell Glasgow, Debra Haire-Joshu, Laura Hayman, Robert Kaplan, Marilyn Nanney, and Judith Ockene. We are indebted to them for providing permission to draw at length from their paper, the full citation of which is, Fisher, E. B., Fitzgibbon, M. L., Glasgow, R. E., Haire-Joshu, D., Hayman, L. L., Kaplan, R. M., Nanney, M. S., & Ockene, J. K. (2011). Behavior matters. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 40(5), e15–30.

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  1. Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Edwin B. Fisher

  2. Psychological Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA

    Linda D. Cameron

  3. The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Linda D. Cameron

  4. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Alan J. Christensen

  5. Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Ulrike Ehlert

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    Yan Guo

  7. Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Brian Oldenburg

  8. Departments of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Center (AMC) and VU University Medical Center (VUMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Frank J. Snoek

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    Linda D. Cameron

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    Alan J. Christensen

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    Yan Guo

  6. Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Brian Oldenburg

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    Frank J. Snoek

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Fisher, E.B. et al. (2018). Introduction. In: Fisher, E., et al. Principles and Concepts of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93826-4_1

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