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Beginning with a Foreword by Dr. Howard K. Koh, former US Assistant Secretary for Health for the Department of Health and Human Services, this volume examines almost every aspect of health, reviewing past and more recent research on the relationship between religion and health outcomes.
Sommario
- Foreword (Howard Koh)
- Preface (Jeff Levin)
- Introduction
- I. Research Methodology
- 1. Definitions
- 2. Measurement
- 3. Research design
- II. Mental Health
- 4. Coping with stress
- 5. Depression
- 6. Bipolar disorder
- 7. Suicide
- 8. Anxiety
- 9. Schizophrenia and other psychoses
- 10. Substance use
- 11. Personality traits and disorders
- 12. Psychological well-being and positive emotions
- III. Social Health
- 13. Delinquency and crime
- 14. Marital and family stability
- 15. Social support
- IV. Explanatory Mechanisms: Mental and Social Health
- 16. Understanding the religion, mental, and social health relationship
- V. Health Behaviors
- 17. Cigarette smoking
- 18. Exercise
- 19. Diet and weight
- VI. Physical Health
- 20. Heart disease
- 21. Hypertension
- 22. Cerebrovascular disease
- 23. Alzheimer's disease and other dementias
- 24. Immune function
- 25. Stress hormones
- 26. Cancer
- 27. Mortality
- 28. Physical disability
- 29. Chronic pain
- 30. Disease detection and prevention
- VII. Explanatory Mechanisms: Physical Health
- 31. Understanding the religion-physical health relationship
- VIII. Public Health and Health Policy
- 32. Public health and human flourishing
- 33. Health policy implications
- IX. Conclusions
- 34. Summary and conclusions
- Appendix. Studies on religion and health (by health outcome)
- References
- Index
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Harold G. Koenig is Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Ningxia Medical University in China.
Tyler J. VanderWeele is John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Human Flourishing Program in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.
John R. Peteet is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Beginning with a Foreword by Dr. Howard K. Koh, former US Assistant Secretary for Health for the Department of Health and Human Services, this volume examines almost every aspect of health, reviewing past and more recent research on the relationship between religion and health outcomes.
