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The Politics of Vodou: Aids, Access to Health Care and the Use of Culture in Haiti [PDF]
, 2007 During the past few years, the AIDS campaign in Haiti has been targeting Vodou officiants and organizations. These awareness and training programmes in- form officiants about the transmission and prevention of AIDS, tests for HIV and anti- retroviral ...
Benoît, Catherine
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Health, Spirituality and Medical Ethics, 2016 Background and Objectives: Belief health and possession of proper religious beliefs are among hygienic priorities for effective and active strata of the society. False religious beliefs and adherence thereto lead human beings astray.
Alireza Alinouri +5 more
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Relação entre bem-estar espiritual e transtornos psiquiátricos menores: estudo transversal
Revista de Saúde PúblicaOBJETIVO: Examinar a influência do bem-estar espiritual na saúde mental de estudantes universitários. MÉTODOS: Estudo transversal com 464 universitários das áreas de medicina e de direito, de Pelotas, RS. A coleta de dados foi realizada em grupos na sala
Sandra Maria Alexandre Volcan +3 more
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Understanding the urban-rural disparity in HIV and poverty nexus: the case of Kenya [PDF]
, 2016 Background The relationship between HIV and poverty is complex and recent studies reveal an urban-rural divide that is not well understood. This paper examines the urban-rural disparity in the relationship between poverty and HIV infection in Kenya, with
Magadi, Monica A.
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Zygon, 2018 As science and religion researchers begin to engage questions of mental health, mindfulness may prove to be a fruitful area of investigation. However, quantifying the physical effects of mindfulness on the brain is difficult because mindfulness deals ...
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On things seen and unseen: enlarging the vision in sociology of religion [PDF]
, 2017 Our earliest sociological forebears gave us big ideas to think with and often turned their foundational questions to the analysis of religion. Durkheim (1964) asked how the energy of a gathered community became condensed into symbols that endure and bind
Ammerman, Nancy T.
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2005 Background Quality of life is a multidimensional construct composed of functional, physical, emotional, social and spiritual well-being. In order to examine how patients with severe diseases view the impact of spirituality and religiosity on their health
Matthiessen Peter F +2 more
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ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY BETWEEN MEDICINE, RELIGION AND LAW [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge SocietyThe new, the engine that allows us to evolve. That is what we do by nature: we figure out how things work and we make new steps, over and over. We created vaccines to help prevent diseases and, in the future, maybe we are about to create a human being ...
Dan LUPAȘCU, Ioana PĂDURARIU
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Women, religion and medicine in Johannesburg between the wars [PDF]
, 1982 African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 19 August, 1982In explaining the growth of independent churches among the Shona since the 1930s, Daneel lays great stress on the attraction for ordinary members of the curative powers offered by the church.
Gaitskell, Deborah
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God and the Machine: A Correlational Study on Mobile Phone Dependence, Religious Coping, and Mental Health [PDF]
, 2020 Research on the various effects of mobile phones did not begin to be published until after they had already been integrated into society. To date, the results of various studies looking into the relationship between mobile phone use and mental health ...
Bolme, Rachel
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