Development of Behavioral Medicine in Mexico

Abstract

This article describes the parallelism of Mexico with respect to other countries regarding the factors that determined the emergence of Behavioral Medicine, among them are biofeedback, applied behavior analysis and change in the epidemiological profile. As an interdisciplinary field, behavioral medicine, integrates the behavioral sciences, biomedical sciences and social science resulting in the conjunction of different knowledge. In Mexico, we have studied various interdisciplinary problems such as chronic degenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, among others. However, given the changes in the political, social and economic organizations of our country it becomes necessary to venture into areas such as public policies, human rights and bioethics.