How religion influences morbidity and health: reflections on natural history, salutogenesis and host resistance.
How religion influences morbidity and health: reflections on natural history, salutogenesis and host resistance.
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宗教如何影响发病和健康：对自然历史、致礼和宿主抵抗的反思。
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10.1016/0277-9536(96)00150-5
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1996
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Levin,JS
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Levin,JS
本文调查的领域，已被称为流行病学的宗教。近年来，对广义的宗教参与影响的流行病学研究越来越受欢迎，尽管在流行病学背景下尚未解释宗教对健康的明显有益影响的存在、意义和影响。本文试图通过讨论几个实质性流行病学概念的现有实证研究结果，将“流行病学”纳入宗教流行病学，以纠正这种情况。首先提供了一个概述的关键研究成果和以前的审查这一领域，总结发现的保护性宗教对发病率的影响进行检查的三个重要的流行病学概念：疾病的自然史，salutogenesis和宿主的抵抗力。除了描述解释宗教健康协会的理论基础，本文还列举了宗教参与的流行病学调查结果的常见误解，以及各自宗教维度的假设途径，中介因素和健康机制的概述。希望这些反思将有助于提升宗教作为社会流行病学研究的一个值得构建的地位，并重振社会流行病学领域。
This paper surveys the field that has come to be known as the epidemiology of religion. Epidemiologic study of the impact of religious involvement, broadly defined, has become increasingly popular in recent years, although the existence, meaning and implications of an apparently salutary religious effect on health have not yet been interpreted in an epidemiologic context. This paper attempts to remedy this situation by putting the “epidemiology” into the epidemiology of religion through discussion of existing empirical findings in terms of several substantive epidemiologic concepts. After first providing an overview of key research findings and prior reviews of this field, the summary finding of a protective religious effect on morbidity is examined in terms of three important epidemiologic concepts: the natural history of disease, salutogenesis and host resistance. In addition to describing a theoretical basis for interpreting a religion-health association, this paper provides an enumeration of common misinterpretations of epidemiologic findings for religious involvement, as well as an outline of hypothesized pathways, mediating factors, and salutogenic mechanisms for respective religious dimensions. It is hoped that these reflections will serve both to elevate the status of religion as a construct worthy of social-epidemiologic research and to reinvigorate the field of social epidemiology.