Leveraging data from the U.S Add Health project, Eric Kim and colleagues explore how mood during adolescence influences health and well-being outcomes in adulthood.
This study demonstrated that spiritual needs are common among Danes. These findings
have important implications for public health policies and clinical care. Care for
the spiritual dimension of health is warranted as part of holistic, person-centered
care in what we term ‘post-secular’ societies. Future research should inform how spiritual
needs might be addressed in healthy and diseased populations in Denmark and other
European countries and the clinical effectiveness of such interventions.
Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH; Derek A. Chapman, PhD; Jong Hyung Lee, MS
In any year, keeping track of new health trends can be difficult. But this year, the dynamic nature of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has made clarity almost impossible. Declines in mortality, after daily COVID-19–related deaths peaked last spring, initially fueled hope that the worst was over. But following a summer increase in deaths, trends have accelerated even faster. This fall, a million new cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, which previously had increased monthly, began appearing weekly; as of December 13, cumulative infections totaled more than 16 million in the United States.