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- More recently, leading public health and medical journals have dedicated special issues to these topics. 19–21 The growing body of robust, empirical research strongly links spiritual beliefs, states of being, communal practices, and private rituals to a range of beneficial health outcomes including lower all-cause mortality. 5,22–24 This has led some public health scholars to call spirituality and religion determinants of health. 23 Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the unique health...
Jul 12, 2022 · Spirituality should be incorporated into care for both serious illness and overall health, according to a study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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Aug 14, 2020 · Spirituality and health-related behaviors can play a significant role in defining psychological well-being. Personal focus on physical health and the human body or psychosocial health and the human mind and spirit, might also determine psychological well-being.
- Agnieszka Bożek, Paweł F. Nowak, Mateusz Blukacz
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01997
- 2020
- Front Psychol. 2020; 11: 1997.
Jun 3, 2024 · Reimagining public health’s future should include explicitly considering spirituality as a social determinant of health that is linked to human goods and is deeply valued by people and their...
Jul 12, 2022 · Boston, MA—Spirituality should be incorporated into care for both serious illness and overall health, according to a study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dec 16, 2012 · Unmet spiritual needs, especially if they involve R/S struggles, can adversely affect health and may increase mortality independent of mental, physical, or social health . Second, R/S influences the patient's ability to cope with illness.
- Harold G. Koenig
- 10.5402/2012/278730
- 2012
- ISRN Psychiatry. 2012; 2012: 278730.
Nov 18, 2021 · Research over the last decades has been growing substantially in the field of “Spirituality and Health,” showing a significant influence of spiritual and religious beliefs on both mental and physical health outcomes (Damiano et al., 2016), and approximately 30,000 articles have been published in this field of research from 1999 to 2013 in ...
Most studies have shown that religious involvement and spirituality are associated with better health outcomes, including greater longevity, coping skills, and health-related quality of life (even during terminal illness) and less anxiety, depression, and suicide.
