Religiosity and health: A global comparative study.

ABSTRACT: The objective of this paper is to understand global connections between indicators of religiosity and health and how these differ cross-nationally. Data are from World Values Surveys (93 countries, N=121,770). Health is based on a self-assessed question about overall health. First, country-specific regressions are examined to determine the association separately in each country. Next, country-level variables and cross-level interactions are added to multilevel models to assess whether and how context affects health and religiosity slopes. Results indicate enormous variation in associations between religiosity and health across countries and religiosity indicators. Significant positive associations between all religiosity measures and health exist in only three countries (Georgia, South Afr

SUBMITTER: Zimmer Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6595270 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature