Provide Comprehensive Healthcare
The literature strongly suggests that spirituality and religion
are linked with health outcomes. Thus spirituality or religious
practices are important in patient assessment and intervention
and should be considered in both heath and illness. The goal
is to provide comprehensive healthcare that includes the spiritual
and religious dimensions.
Health professionals should anticipate spiritual concerns
because all people are spiritual beings as much as they are
physical and rational ones. Everyone, whether religious or
not, looks for meaning and purpose in life.
For example, how do you explain the deaths of seemingly healthy
men a year or two after retirement? Could it be that work
provided the meaning and purpose in their lives and without
it they perished? How also would you explain the higher mortality
of spouses in the year following the death of their partners?
These are dramatic examples of negative health outcomes linked
to the loss of meaning and purpose. (Holmes,
T. & Rahe, R. , 1971)
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