Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field of medicine concerned with the development and integration of psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical knowledge relevant to health and illness. The term is often used interchangeably with psychiatry. Interdisciplinary work is that which integrates concepts across different disciplines. ... Medicine is the branch of health science and the sector of public life concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury. ... Psychosocial pertains to ones psychological development in the context of ones social environment. ... Behavior (U.S.) or behaviour (U.K.) refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. ... Health science is the discipline of applied science which deals with human and animal health. ... This article needs more context around or a better explanation of technical details to make it more accessible to general readers and technical readers outside the specialty, without removing technical details. ... Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that studies, diagnoses, and treats mental illness and behavioral disorders. ...