How is behavioral medicine informed by epidemiology and how

How is behavioral medicine informed by epidemiology and how is behavioral medicine different from the field of epidemiology?

Solution

Epidemiology helps to identify the pattern of disease. It also provides the insight of cause and effect of health and disease with proper evidence based practice by identifying risk factors for disease. The behavioral medicine uses this knowledge provided epidemiology in prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation

Difference between behavioral Medicine from the field of epidemiology:-

1. Behavioral medicine is implemented by research Staff where as epidemiology implemented by non research Staff.

2. Epidemiology is just the study of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations where as Behavioral medicine is application of this knowledge and these techniques to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.

3. Behavioral medicine is intensive, clinic-based intervention where as Epidemiology is brief, feasible intervention.