PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. A GLOBAL HANDBOOK

1. Introduction
2. Overview of Types of Disease, Their Epidemiology, and Treatments
3. Risky Behaviours
4. Behavioral Medicine: Who Does It and Where
5. Randomized Clinical Trials in Behavioral Medicine
6. Research Approaches of Education, Applied Psychology, and Behavioral Science and Their Application to Behavioral Medicine
7. Theory in Behavioral Medicine
8. Advancing Implementation: Toward an Inclusive View of Research in Behavioral Medicine
9. Behavioral Medicine’s Roots in Behaviorism: Concepts and Applications
10. Genetics, Behavior, and Behavior-Genetic Interactions in Health Risk
11. Stress and Emotions
12. Social Support and Physical Health: Models, Mechanisms, and Opportunities
13. Social and Cultural Context: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
14. The Fundamental Role of Socioeconomic Resources for Health and Health Behaviors
15. Improving Health and Tackling Health Inequities Through the Non-health Sector
16. A Life Course Perspective on Behavior and Health
17. Health Education and Health Promotion: Key Concepts and Exemplary Evidence to Support Them
18. Promoting Early Detection and Screening for Disease
19. Adherence
20. Patient-Provider Interactions: Promoting Effective Behavior and Providing Optimal Care
21. Child and Family Interventions
22. Peer Support in Prevention, Chronic Disease Management, and Well-Being
23. Engaging Communities to Improve Health: Models, Evidence, and the Participatory Knowledge Translation (PaKT) Framework
24. Using Genomic Knowledge to Improve Health Promotion Interventions in the Developing World
25. Policy and Policy Research for Behavioural Medicine
26. Tobacco Control: Preventing Smoking and Facilitating Cessation
27. Promoting Physical Activity Behavior: Interventions and Mediators
28. Behavioral Management of Obesity: Enduring Models, Applications to Diabetes Prevention and Management, and Global Dissemination
29. Preventing Violence and Injury
30. Ongoing Behavioral Management of Common Chronic Illnesses
31. The Evolution of HIV Prevention Interventions and Chronic Disease Management
32. Psychology, Mental Health, and Quality of Life
33. Quality of Life and Person-Centered Outcomes: Considerations for Behavioral Medicine
34. End of Life Issues in Behavioral Medicine
35. Values in Behavioral Medicine
36. Behavioral Medicine and the Benefits of Healthcare: A Critical Appraisal and the Need for Exnovation
37. Impacts of Emerging Fundamental Science on Health, Behavior, and Their Interaction
38. Behavioral Medicine of the Future: From Disease to Health and Well Being, from the Individual to the Community and the Global, from Causes to Complexity

This is the major work tying together the state of the art for the field as an integrated whole.
The book has an international roster of editors and contributors, and so will have global appeal.