Video: Spirituality and Health – Research Findings From Serious Illness to Well Populations

Tracy A. Balboni, MD, MPH, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – Visiting Scholar Series

Presentation highlights include:

• Contrasting the history of the relationship of spirituality and the practice of medicine to the current relationship of spirituality to the practice of medicine
• Discussion of what research says about the role of spirituality in illness and the impact of spiritual care on patient outcomes in illness
• Review of data regarding religious community participation and mortality, health behaviors, mental health outcomes, including depression, and completed suicide