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Abstract This chapter describes the development of the social determinants approach in public health and argues for the place of religion in it. Religious institutions affect health status by providing social support and intimacy with others; by establishing norms and the social control of behavior, especially health-related behaviors; and by creating institutional social capital in communities. Many effects of religious practice and policy may improve health, but others clearly have negative effects. Religious practices and institutions may also mitigate or enhance the effects of other social determinants of health such as poverty, economic inequality, social deprivation, poor education, and the conditions of life that derive from them, including poor nutrition, polluted water or air, and lack of access to health care. Religions are forces that affect the health of populations.
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