Many religious congregations in the United States have adapted to COVID-19 lockdowns by offering services online. This study aims understand whether congregants from a diverse set of faith traditions expect attend online or in-person after pandemic. First, it examines how members different vary their expectations future attendance. Second, explores respondents’ habituation attendance during pan...

Ayurveda is playing a growing part in Europe. Questions regarding the role of religion and spirituality within Ayurveda are discussed widely. Yet, there is little data on the influence of religious and spiritual aspects on its European diffusion. Methods. A survey was conducted with a new questionnaire. It was analysed by calculating frequency variables and testing differences in distributions ...

www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Vol 4 April 2016 e234 2013 legal amendment to eliminate fees for all CRVS documents, the implementation of these laws has been inconsistent across regions, and many parents continue to pay hidden fees. Acquisition of the prerequisite documents, including parents’ marriage certifi cates (found to increase a child’s odds of birth certificate ownership by 90%), contribut...

Any assessment of the status of women has to start from the social framework, social structures, cultural norms and value systems that influence social expectations regarding the behaviour of both men and women and determine women‟s roles and their position in society. A society is composed of many institutions and most important of them are the system of decent, family and kinship, marriage an...

In the United States, the necessity, effective and safety of vaccinations in this century was hardly questioned by the majority until the last few years. The virtual disappearance of small pox, polio, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough) seem to present strong evidence of the effectiveness of these immunizations. Today, every state requires children to have vaccinations (DPT, Polio and MMR...

For two decades, published research has linked religious participation to various health outcomes. These include diminished risk according to overall and cause-specific morbidity and mortality and to indices of health status, symptomatology, and psychiatric illness, especially depression and anxiety. What may not be apparent to physicians exposed to this literature through featured news stories...

OBJECTIVE To understand lay beliefs and attitudes, religious teachings, and professional perceptions in relation to diabetes prevention in the Bangladeshi community. DESIGN Qualitative study (focus groups and semistructured interviews). SETTING Tower Hamlets, a socioeconomically deprived London borough, United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS Bangladeshi people without diabetes (phase 1), religious ...

Near-death experiences (NDEs), transcendental or mystical events experienced on the threshold of death, have been speculated to arise from psychopathology or from pre-existing expectations of the dying process, although such speculations have never been tested. Sixty-one consecutive suicide attempters were interviewed in this empirical study of persons who would be expected to have a high rate ...

The importance of values in organizations is often discussed in management literature. Possessing strong or inspiring values is increasingly considered to be a key quality of successful leaders. Another common theme is that organizational values contribute to the culture and ultimate success of organizations. These conceptions or expectations are clearly applicable to healthcare organizations i...