Brammli-Greenberg Shuli, Glazer Jacob, Shapiro Ephraim
Smokler Center for Health Policy Research, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.
Healthcare Administration Program (MHA), School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
J Relig Health. 2018 Apr;57(2):738-750. doi: 10.1007/s10943-018-0577-3.
A growing body of evidence indicates an association between religion and health. However, few have studied the connection between the extent of an individual's religiosity and his health. Analysis of the 2004 Israel National Health Survey was performed. Religiosity was self-identified using five continuous categories, distinctive to Israeli Jews. Bivariate and multivariate analyses examined the relationship between the extent of Religious commitment and several health outcomes. The relationship took the shape of an inverse U function: Israeli Jews in the middle religiously have the worst physical and mental health status on both unadjusted and adjusted bases. Israeli Jews exhibit a non-trivial connection between religiosity and health whereby the most Secular and the most Religious individuals seem to be healthier than individuals in between.
越来越多的证据表明宗教与健康之间存在关联。然而，很少有人研究个人宗教虔诚程度与健康之间的联系。对2004年以色列全国健康调查进行了分析。宗教虔诚程度通过以色列犹太人特有的五个连续类别进行自我认定。双变量和多变量分析检验了宗教信仰程度与几种健康结果之间的关系。这种关系呈倒U形函数：在未调整和调整后的基础上，宗教信仰处于中等程度的以色列犹太人的身心健康状况最差。以色列犹太人在宗教虔诚程度与健康之间呈现出一种显著的联系，即最世俗和最虔诚的个体似乎比中间程度的个体更健康。
