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Religion, health and aging
Author(s)	Robert B Hudson
Corporate Author	National Academy on an Aging Society, Gerontological Society of America
Journal title	Public Policy and Aging Report, vol 12, no 4, Summer 2002
Publisher	National Academy on an Aging Society, Washington, DC, Summer 2002
Pages	27 pp (whole issue)
Keywords	Religion ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Health [elderly] ; Correlation ; United States of America.
Annotation	Renewed interest in the relationship between religion and health is reflected in articles in this issue of Public Policy and Aging Report. The first two articles (by Linda George and Ellen Idler) review the repeated positive connections that empirical research has found between religious adherence and positive health among both younger and older people. Two articles by Harold Koenig and Robert Brooks consider the merits associated with health care provision by faith-based organisations, given the many pressures on a largely non-secular health care system in the US. Robert Binstock examines concerns about issues of equity that would result from secular providers not adequately or sensitively serving non-adherents to their faith. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-021118209 B
Classmark	TR: EX: CC: 49: 7T
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