Prevalence Of Religious Congregations Affects Mortality Rates

 05.07.2008 14:12   medicalnewstoday.com

LSU associate professor of sociology Troy C. Blanchard recently found that a community's religious environment - that is, the type of religious congregations within a locale - affects mortality rates, often in a positive manner. These results were published in the June issue of Social Forces, a leading journal in the field of sociology.

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