Religious involvement and mortality: A meta-analytic review

Health Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 211-222

  McCullough, Michael E ^a   Hoyt, William T ^b,c   Larson, David B ^a   Koenig, Harold G ^d   Thoresen, Carl ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Longevity; Meta analysis; Mortality; Religion; Survival

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; LONGEVITY; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; RELIGION; REVIEW; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0033764854     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.19.3.211     Document Type: Review

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