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Overview

Ellen L. Idler is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and has contributed to the field of social sciences, with a primary focus on health-related subfields. Their work spans topics such as religion, spirituality, psychology, and health disparities, addressing intersections between social factors and health outcomes.

Their recent publications include:

  • Equal Protection? Differential Effects of Religious Attendance on Black-White Older Adult Mortality, 2020, Innovation in Aging
  • Spirituality As A Determinant Of Health: Emerging Policies, Practices, And Systems, 2024, Health Affairs
  • Faith-Based Organizations and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination: Challenges and Recommendations, 2021, Public Health Reports
  • Promoting advance care planning in African American faith communities: literature review and assessment of church-based programs, 2020, Palliative Care and Social Practice
  • The prevalence, grouping, and distribution of stressors and their association with anxiety among hospitalized patients, 2021, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors of Ellen L. Idler include:

  • Patricia K. Palmer
  • Charles L. Raison
  • Jennifer S. Mascaro
  • Tyler J. VanderWeele
  • Jeff Levin

Their work is published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Innovation in Aging (6 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (2 publications)
  • Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd (2 publications)
  • Health Affairs (1 publication)
  • Public Health Reports (1 publication)

Ellen L. Idler's research spans several subfields within social sciences, particularly:

  • Health
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Major research topics addressed in their work include:

  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Health, psychology, and well-being

Best Publications

  • Self-rated health and mortality : a review of twenty-seven community studies

    Ellen L. Idler;Yael Benyamini

  • Health perceptions and survival: do global evaluations of health status really predict mortality?

    Ellen L. Idler;Stanislav Kasl

  • Self-Ratings of Health: Do they also Predict change in Functional Ability?

    Ellen L. Idler;Stanislav V. Kasl

  • Self-rated health and mortality in the NHANES-I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study.

    E L Idler;R J Angel

  • Measuring multiple dimensions of religion and spirituality for health research: Conceptual background and findings from the 1998 General Social Survey

    Ellen L. Idler;Marc A. Musick;Christopher G. Ellison;Linda K. George

  • Community Studies Reporting Association between Self-Rated Health and Mortality: Additional Studies, 1995 to 1998

    Yael Benyamini;Ellen L. Idler

  • Religious Involvement and the Health of the Elderly: Some Hypotheses and an Initial Test

    Ellen L. Idler

  • Survival, Functional Limitations, and Self-rated Health in the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, 1992

    Ellen L. Idler;Louise B. Russell;Diane Davis

  • Religion, Disability, Depression, and the Timing of Death

    Ellen L. Idler;Stanislav V. Kasl

  • Self-evaluated health and mortality among the elderly in New Haven, Connecticut, and Iowa and Washington counties, Iowa, 1982-1986

    Ellen L. Idler;Stanislav V. Kasl;Jon H. Lemke

  • Positive Affect and Function as Influences on Self-Assessments of Health Expanding Our View Beyond Illness and Disability

    Yael Benyamini;Ellen L. Idler;Howard Leventhal;Elaine A. Leventhal

  • Religion among Disabled and Nondisabled Persons II: Attendance at Religious Services as a Predictor of the Course of Disability

    Ellen L. Idler;Stanislav V. Kasl

  • Age differences in self-assessments of health: age changes, cohort differences, or survivorship?

    Ellen L. Idler

  • The Meanings of Self-Ratings of Health: A Qualitative and Quantitative Approach

    Ellen L. Idler;Shawna V. Hudson;Howard Leventhal

  • Psychological distress and fatigue predicted recurrence and survival in primary breast cancer patients.

    Mogens Groenvold;Mogens Groenvold;Morten Aagaard Petersen;Ellen Idler;Jakob Bue Bjorner

  • Religion among Disabled and Nondisabled Persons I: Cross-sectional Patterns in Health Practices, Social Activities, and Well-being Ellen

    Ellen L. Idler;Stanislav V. Kasl

  • Self-rated health

    J. Bjorner;Peter Fayers;E. idler

  • Psychosocial Factors in Outcomes of Heart Surgery: The Impact of Religious Involvement and Depressive Symptoms.

    Richard J. Contrada;Tanya M. Goyal;Corinne Cather;Luba Rafalson

  • Religion, Health, and Nonphysical Senses of Self

    Ellen L. Idler

  • Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health

    Ellen L. Idler

  • Community Studies Reporting Association Between Self-Rated Health and Mortality

    Yael Benyamini;Ellen L. Idler

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Contrada
Richard J. Contrada Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Howard Leventhal
Howard Leventhal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Elaine A. Leventhal
Elaine A. Leventhal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Yael Benyamini
Yael Benyamini Tel Aviv University
Linda K. George
Linda K. George Duke University
Erich Labouvie
Erich Labouvie Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Corinne Cather
Corinne Cather Harvard University
Marc A. Musick
Marc A. Musick The University of Texas at Austin
Jakob B. Bjorner
Jakob B. Bjorner University of Copenhagen
Deborah Carr
Deborah Carr Boston University

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