Tyler Vander Weele

Sep 5, 2024 | thepublicdiscourse.com | Xavier Symons |John S. Rhee |Tyler Vander Weele

Editors’ Note: This essay is a shortened, adapted version of a paperpublished in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics on August 20. 2024. Portions of this essay were taken directly from the article, with permission from the publisher. The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of their colleagues Anthony Tanous, and Tracy Balboni, who are co-authors on the paper.

Apr 10, 2024 | harvardpublichealth.org | Tyler Vander Weele

There’s a long list of social determinants that we know matter for health outcomes: employment, income, social support, race, discrimination, education, and neighborhood, among others. Often missing from such lists, however, is religion. Religion and spirituality do not appear in the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health; there is no chapter on this topic in the standard textbook on social epidemiology. It is not often covered in courses on health and society.