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.
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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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