Integrating religious faith into patient care

Integrating lifestyle-focused approaches into psoriasis care: improving patient outcomes?

Psoriasis is one of the most well described cutaneous disorders, with a large body of literature devoted to describing its pathogenesis and treatment. In recent years, attention has turned toward the mechanisms by which lifestyle can impact psoriatic disease, and how lifestyle interventions may help to alleviate cutaneous, rheumatological, and comorbid disease in the setting of psoriasis. The f...

Integrating Faith and Learning

Religious Faith and Development : Explorations and Experience

Though many institutions making up the international aid system engaged quite episodically with faith institutions in the past, this situation is changing. Change is propelled by the resurgence and greater assertiveness of faith institutions on one side and by more intensive engagement among public and civil society institutions and growing appreciation of the importance of community participat...

Religious and Scientific Faith in Simplicity *

Both religion and science start with basic assumptions that cannot be proved but are taken on faith. Here I note that one basic assumption that is rather common in both enterprises is the assumption that in comparing different hypotheses that all equally explain the observations, the simpler hypotheses are more probable (Occam's razor or the law of parsimony). That is, explanations should be ma...

Integrating Psychosocial Care Into Routine Cancer Care.

BACKGROUND Despite growing recognition that psychosocial care is an essential component of comprehensive cancer care, evidence suggests many patients with cancer do not receive needed psychosocial care. METHODS Four areas were identified as potentially increasing the number of patients with cancer who receive needed psychosocial care: (1) formulating care standards, (2) issuing clinical pract...