Behavioral medicine Book

	Preface
	Special articles
	Behavioral medicine and international health: Opportunities and challenges	3
	Work stress and health: Research approaches and health promotion strategies	17
	Behaviorally conditioned modulation of immune function	23
	Behavioral medicine in Japan	31
	Medical science versus health sciences	43
	Psychoneuroimmunology
	Modulation of cellular immunity by psychological stress	53
	The sequelae of chronic stress: Immunity and health	59
	Effect of fragrances on immune response in mice given stresses	65
	Anxiety and immune responses in Japanese nursing students	71
	Effects of physical exercise on natural killer cell activity in healthy men in relation to life style	79
	Cardiovascular reactivity
	Cardiovascular reactivity and the development of hypertension	87
	The detection of myocardial infarction symptoms	95
	Epidemiologic research on the association between occupational stress and cardiovascular disease	103
	Behavior pattern, personality and cardiovascular reactivity
	Coronary-prone behavior pattern in Japan	123
	Job-related behavioral factors and the social network of Japanese male workers in the month before onset of acute ischemic heart disease	131
	Work stress and stress study
	Mental work stress and health promotion: Fifteen years follow-up	139
	Stress and social support in relation to health and disease	149
	Evaluation of work stress: Visual reaction test (VRT) as a new apparatus for measuring attention level	155
	Assessment of indicators of work stress affecting psychosomatic and behavioral health	165
	Who finds social supports more useful?: The effects of social supports and the stress-strain relationships among Japanese adult employees	173
	Psychiatric symptoms, work stress and personality traits in Japanese computer workers: A comparative study of the effects of age, school career and computer work	181
	Variations of serum dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEA-s) level according to stress events or stress-related personalities in Japanese	189
	Development, validation and application of a new questionnaire (stress checklist: SCL-86) for stress management in occupational health	195
	Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
	Behaviour research and health planning: The case of AIDS	207
	Successful intervention strategies for AIDS prevention	217
	Effective health policy for AIDS prevention in Japan: Suggestions from an international KABP comparison	223
	AIDS as a drug-induced suffering in Japan	229
	AIDS counseling in Japan	235
	AIDS-related social support and associated problems in Japan	241
	International health
	Role and function of health educational approaches: Toward an enhanced partnership with the sciences of human behavior	247
	An agricultural approach for primary health care communication	253
	Cross-cultural understanding for international cooperation in the field of health care	265
	Health problems and method solving for the urbanizing and industrializing country	271
	Health research and the role of behavioral science	277
	Use of health volunteers and a group approach for raising health awareness in rural Bangladesh	281
	New health indicator
	Factors affecting health promotion indicator selection	291
	Research for health: Challenge of the nineties	299
	Quality of life variables as new health indicators	309
	The process of health socialization - A health sociological approach	321
	A new health indicator for health education	329
	Indicators for health promotion of workers	331
	Other major topics
	Trends in use of medical care by the elderly in Japan	339
	Impact of smoking habit on medical costs	347
	Sleep and cardiovascular risk factor: A study of male self-defense officials in Japan	355
	Behavioral pediatrics	361
	Development and advance of behavioral scientific studies in health in Japan	369
	Author index	375
	Keyword index	377