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Maintaining Health and Well-Being by Putting Faith into Action During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Anxiety and fear adversely affect the physiological systems that protect individuals from infection. This article comments on the role that religious faith and practice can play in helping individuals remain free from infection by the coronavirus and in helping to moderate the effects of infection i...

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Autor principal: Koenig, Harold G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7224109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32409989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-020-01035-2
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spelling pubmed-72241092020-05-15 Maintaining Health and Well-Being by Putting Faith into Action During the COVID-19 Pandemic Koenig, Harold G. J Relig Health Original Paper Anxiety and fear adversely affect the physiological systems that protect individuals from infection. This article comments on the role that religious faith and practice can play in helping individuals remain free from infection by the coronavirus and in helping to moderate the effects of infection if that should occur. The author provides six recommendations to help individuals maintain spiritual, mental, and physical resilience during these anxious times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Springer US 2020-05-14 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7224109/ /pubmed/32409989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-020-01035-2 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7224109/
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