and Behavior, Interplay of and Societal Influences. Committee on and Behavior, Institute of Medicine Research Practice and Policy Board on Neuroscience and Washington, DC, National Academy Press, 2001, hardcover, 377 pp, $43.00. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) was established by National Academy of Sciences to utilize the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in examination of policy matters pertaining to health of public. Each year teams of scholars study issues that are deemed crucial to fields of medicine, research, and education; collect and analyze available evidence; and make recommendations for change. The results of these investigations are published in text format and made available to public for a fee. In 2001, Board on Neuroscience and collaborated with Board on Promotion and Disease Prevention of IOM to update 1982 IOM report, and Behavior. Frontiers of Research in Biohehavioral Sciences. The scholars who were gathered to develop this document come from fields of medicine, public health, epidemiology, family therapy, psychiatry, clinical and social psychology, law and ethics, and health education. The text begins with an executive summary that defines concepts of health and behavior, and provides a brief overview and summary of findings and recommendations. The remainder of report is divided into 3 parts that provide a comprehensive evidence-based report that describes connections between health, biological risk factors, social risk factors, and social contexts. Part One evaluates Biological, Behavioral, and Social Affecting Health. Part Two identifies Health-Related Interventions, and Part Three summarizes their Findings and Recommendations. Chapter Two, Biobehavioral in and Disease, begins Part One with extensive evidence to support effects of stress on all body systems, including negative health outcomes, particularly in immune and cardiovascular systems. Chapter Three focuses on Behavioral Risk Factors and their negative health outcomes, particularly related to areas most likely to be targeted by health promotion programs: tobacco use, obesity, physical activity, diet, alcohol consumption, sexual practices, and health screenings. The chapter also describes positive benefits of discontinuing risk behavior. Chapter Four extends examination of health risk factors to social risk factors including stresses in community that cause stress in an individual. Socioeconomic factors, social networks, job-related factors, social inequalities, and religious beliefs are topics covered as social risks. Part Two explores Health Related Interventions. Chapter Five, Individuals and Families: Models and Interventions, provides an excellent description of most commonly used behavior change strategies for individual or population-based interventions, and a review of evidence for efficacy of behavioral change on disease outcomes for specific conditions. …