Religious Involvement, Health Status, and Mortality Risk

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 533-546

  Hill, Terrence D ^a   Burdette, Amy M ^b   Idler, Ellen L ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Healthy Behavior; Psychological Resource; Religious Attendance; Religious Institution; Religious Involvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860437095     PISSN: 13896903     EISSN: 2542839X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7374-0_33     Document Type: Chapter

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