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VanderWeele: A Course on Religion and Public Health at Harvard

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Research has gradually accumulated suggesting that religious participation is a powerful social determinant of health.The role of religion in shaping health is given relatively little attention in most public health curricula today. When religion is...

Balboni: U.S. Clergy Religious Values and Relationships to End-of-Life Discussions and Care

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Context. Although clergy interact with approximately half of U.S. patients facing end-of-life medical decisions, little is known about clergy-congregant interactions or clergy influence on end-of-life decisions. Objective. The objective was to conduct a...

Sanders: Seeking and Accepting: U.S. Clergy Theological and Moral Perspectives Informing Decision Making at the End of Life

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Background: People with serious illness frequently rely on religion/spirituality to cope with their diagnosis, with potentially positive and negative consequences. Clergy are uniquely positioned to help patients consider medical decisions at or near the...

Tyler VanderWeele: On the promotion of human flourishing

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Abstract Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or a measure of positive affect. Human well-being or flourishing, however, consists in a...

Balboni: State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research

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Abstract The State of the Science in Spirituality and Palliative Care was convened to address the current landscape of research at the intersection of spirituality and palliative care and to identify critical next steps to advance this field of inquiry...

VanderWeele, Koh, Balboni: Health and Spirituality

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For centuries, physicians and other healers have witnessed how illness focuses attention on “ultimate meaning, purpose, and transcendence, and … relationship to self, family, others, community, society, nature, and the significant or sacred.” 1 Patients...

Views of Clergy Regarding Ethical Controversies in Care at the End of Life

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Abstract Context: Although religion often informs ethical judgments, little is known about the views of American clergy regarding controversial end-of-life ethical issues including allowing to die and physician aid in dying or physician-assisted suicide...

Religion and Health in Europe

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Abstract: Much of the research on the relationships between religious participation and health comes from the United States. Studies in other geographic regions or cultural contexts is more sparse. Evidence presented by Ahrenfelt et al., and that from...

Training Community Clergy in Serious Illness: Balancing Faith and Medicine

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Abstract Community-based clergy are highly engaged in helping seriously ill patients address spiritual concerns at the end of life (EOL). While they desire EOL training, no data exist in guiding how to conceptualize a clergy-training program. The...

Theological virtues, health, and wellbeing

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Katelyn N.G. Long and Tyler J. VanderWeele Abstract: This chapter uses a population health perspective to examine the role of the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love in promoting human health and well-being. We begin with an overview of public...

Spirituality in Serious Health and Illness

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ABSTRACT Importance Despite growing evidence, the role of spirituality in serious illness and health has not been systematically assessed. Objective To review evidence concerning spirituality in serious illness and health and to identify implications for...

International REACH Forgiveness Intervention: A Multi-Site Randomized Controlled Trial

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Key Points Question: Can a brief self-guided forgiveness workbook intervention alter forgiveness and depression and anxiety symptoms? Findings: In this multi-site randomized waitlist-controlled trial among 4,598 participants in Colombia, Hong Kong...