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Levin JS, Schiller PL. Is there a religious factor in health?. J Relig Health. 1987;26(1):9-36doi: 10.1007/BF01533291.
Levin, J. S., & Schiller, P. L. (1987). Is there a religious factor in health?. Journal of religion and health, 26(1), 9-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01533291
Levin, J S, and Schiller, P L. "Is there a religious factor in health?." Journal of religion and health vol. 26,1 (1987): 9-36. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01533291
Levin JS, Schiller PL. Is there a religious factor in health?. J Relig Health. 1987 Mar;26(1):9-36. doi: 10.1007/BF01533291. PMID: 24301836.
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J Relig Health. 1987 Mar;26(1):9-36. doi: 10.1007/BF01533291.

Is there a religious factor in health?.

Journal of religion and health

J S Levin, P L Schiller

Affiliations

  1. Division of Sociomedical Sciences, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.

PMID: 24301836 DOI: 10.1007/BF01533291

Abstract

This paper reviews epidemiologic studies employing religion as an independent construct, and finds that most epidemiologists have an extremely limited appreciation of religion. After a historical overview of empirical religion and health research, some theoretical considerations are offered, followed by clarification of several operational and methodological issues. Next, well over 200 studies are reviewed from nine health-related areas: cardiovascular disease, hypertension and stroke, colitis and enteritis, general health status, general mortality, cancer of the uterine corpus and cervix, all other non-uterine cancers, morbidity and mortality in the clergy, and cancer in India. Finally, an agenda for further research is proposed.

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