Religious attendance and cause-specific mortality in the United States

Religion, Families, and Health: Population-Based Research in the United States

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 292-320

  Rogers, Richard G ^a   Krueger, Patrick M ^b   Hummer, Robert A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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