ABSTRACT
This book represents an attempt to describe the contemporary context for behavioral medicine approaches to coronary heart disease (CHD) prevention. Almost two decades ago, a small group of distinguished health scientists developed and shaped the concept of behavioral medicine into the following classical definition: “Behavioral Medicine is the interdisciplinary field concerned with the development and integration of behavioral and biomedical science knowledge and techniques relevant to the understanding of health and illness and the application of this knowledge and these techniques to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation” (1).
