What is Behavioral Medicine[什么是行为医学].pptVIP

I. Why Behavioral Medicine A. It’s a response to changes in healthcare. 1. Acute infectious diseases are no longer the major killer or cripplers. 2. The profile of today’s illness is marked by chronic stress related multifactorial diseases. I. Why Behavioral Medicine Health Today Mortality rates indicate people are living longer Morbidity rates indicate fewer people suffer from infectious disease I. Why Behavioral Medicine 3. These are diseases of “choice” not chance because of life style and unhealthy behaviors. a) With the chronicity of disease, behavioral and psychological factors become more crucial to prognosis and to effective therapy (i.e. consider passive patients that become active as they are given a diagnosis). I. Why Behavioral Medicine Health: Yesterday and Today 1800’s Health = absence of illness. Common illnesses: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, tuberculosis Poor health often associated with poor hygiene Late 1800’s and 1900’s Suspicion of the environment as a cause of I. Why Behavioral Medicine World Health Organization 1947 conference on global health “Health is the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease or infirmity.” The first time health meant more than an absence of illness I. Why Behavioral Medicine B. As such, Interdisciplinary communication begins. 1. Consequently, a school of medical thought is challenged – mind-body dualism (Descartes) 2. Simultaneously, another school of medical thought is challenged and reinforced – reductionistic vs integrative I. Why Behavioral Medicine C. A unique conference is held at Yale University in 1997 defines 1. Behavioral Medicine is defined 2. At this conference different disciplines open communication between researchers and clinicians. II. Definition A. Behavioral Medicine is an interdisciplinary effort involving research and clinical practice. B. It studies the interactions of the physical, psychological, social environment, cognition, behavior