Behavioral Medicine Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments ix
• Part I - Introduction to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Behavioral Medicine 1
• Chapter 1 - Concepts and Theories of Prevention: Reasons for Soliciting Behavioral Medicine Knowledge 3
• REFERENCES 10
• Chapter 2 - Principles of Behavioral Medicine: Implications for Prevention 11
• REFERENCES 16
• Part II - Behavioral Epidemiology and Public Health in Cardivascular Disease Prevention 19
• Chapter 3 - Socioeconomic Factors in CHD Prevention 21
• REFERENCES 39
• Chapter 4 - Social Class and Cardiovascular Disease 43
• REFERENCES 49
• Chapter 5 - Prevention of Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality: Role of Social Relations 51
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 65
• REFERENCES 65
• Chapter 6 - The Demand-Control-Support Model for Studying Health in Relation to the Work Environment: An Interactive Model 69
• REFERENCES 82
• Chapter 7 - Stressful Work, Self-Experience, and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention 87
• REFERENCES 100
• Part III - Biobehavioral and Psychosocial Factors in Cardiovascular Diseasae Prevention 103
• Chapter 8 - Insulin Metabolism, Sympathetic Nervous System Regulation, and Coronary Heart Disease Prevention 105
• REFERENCES 124
• Chapter 9 - Psychophysiological Processes in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease 135
• REFERENCES 146
• Chapter 10 - Personality Factors and Coronary Heart Disease 149
• REFERENCES 158
• Chapter 11 - Coronary-Prone Behaviors, Hostility, and Cardiovascular Health: Implications for Behavioral and Pharmacological Interventions 161
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 166
• Chapter 12 - New Behavioral Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease: Implications for Intervention 169
• REFERENCES 180
• Part IV - Behavioral Intervention Models in Cardiovascualr Disease Prevenction 183
• Chapter 13 - Health Education at the Individual Level 185
• REFERENCES 201
• Chapter 14 - Modification of Health Behavior and Lifestyle Mediated by Physicians 203
• REFERENCES 222
• Chapter 15 - Behavioral Medicine Interventions in Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease 227
• REFERENCES 235
• Chapter 16 - Community Interventions in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention 237
• REFERENCES 261
• Chapter 17 - Healthy Public Policy: Getting Governments Onside 263
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 276
• Part V - Summary and Conclusions 277
• Chapter 18 - Blending Traditions: A Concluding Perspective on Behavioral Medicine Approaches to Coronary Heart Disease Prevention 279
• REFERENCES 295
• Author Index 301
• Subject Index 315

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