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Ethnicity and Religiosity as Risk Factors for Health

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 7185

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Dr. Jitse P. van Dijk

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1. Department of Community and Occupational Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
2. Olomouc University Social Health Institute, Palacky University Olomouc, 771 11 Olomouc, Czech Republic
3. Graduate School Kosice Institute for Society and Health, P.J. Safarik University in Kosice, 040 11 Kosice, Slovakia
Interests: mental health; adolescents; Roma health; religiosity/spirituality and health
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Dear Colleagues,

The world is full of (ethnic) minorities; they live everywhere. My own expertise in minority health is specifically in Roma health; I have guided two related Special Issues in this Journal (first “Roma Health”, and after that “Roma Health Disadvantage”). To be short about “Ethnicity”, “Religiosity” and “Health”, most of the time, the connection between “Ethnicity” and “Health” has a kind of negative association but between “Religiosity” and “Health” has mostly a positive one. As far as I know, no one knows whether “Religiosity” does overcome the effect of “Ethnicity” on “Health”; therefore, it would be a puzzle to figure out how both concepts are related to health-risk behavior in this Special Issue.

Dr. Jitse P. van Dijk
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • minority
  • ethnicity
  • religiosity
  • health risk behavior
  • health outcome
  • compliance
  • historical comparison

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Roma Religion: 1775 and 2018 Compared over Time
by Michal Kozubik, Daniela Filakovska Bobakova, Martina Mojtova, Miroslava Tokovska and Jitse P. van Dijk
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(18), 11645; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811645 - 15 Sep 2022
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The objective of the present study was to compare the religiosity of the Roma in the 18th century with the present. In 1775 and 1776, Samuel Augustini ab Hortis detailed the way of life of the Roma community in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in [...] Read more.
The objective of the present study was to compare the religiosity of the Roma in the 18th century with the present. In 1775 and 1776, Samuel Augustini ab Hortis detailed the way of life of the Roma community in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in his work “Von dem Heutigen Zustände, Sonderbaren Sitten und Lebensart, Wie Auch von Denen Übrigen Eigenschaften und Umständen der Zigeuner in Ungarn” (On the Contemporary Situation, Distinctive Manners and Way of Life, as Well as the Other Characteristics and Circumstances of Gypsies in Greater Hungary). A detailed content analysis of the part of his work dealing with religion was performed. Subsequently, in 2018, field research was conducted in the environment in which Samuel Augustini lived and worked. It involved six key informants, each representing a different municipality. Data collection was carried out over two periods: in the summer months of 2012–2013 and the winter period of 2018–2019. After the interviews with the key informants, more than 70 participants were included in semi-structured interviews through snowball sampling, and another 40 participants were included in two focus groups. The data was evaluated and content analysis was used to process the data. The findings confirm that both in the past and the present, the Roma community adopted the dominant religion of the host country. In the studied environments, the activities of the majority, present then and now in the Catholic Church, failed, and various other missionary movements, such as the Maranatha Mission, came to the fore. Membership in new religious movements resulted in social changes in marginalized Roma communities. However, they may not have only had positive effects. Various effects of their activities may be studied in the future. Full article
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Jehovah’s Witnesses and Their Compliance with Regulations on Smoking and Blood Treatment
by Barbara Pavlikova and Jitse P. van Dijk
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(1), 387; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010387 - 30 Dec 2021
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Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) are known as a religious group compliant with the national laws in the case of smoking, but not-compliant when it comes to blood treatment. Their beliefs prevent them from taking part in a blood transfusion, which is widely included in [...] Read more.
Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) are known as a religious group compliant with the national laws in the case of smoking, but not-compliant when it comes to blood treatment. Their beliefs prevent them from taking part in a blood transfusion, which is widely included in standard methods of a life-saving treatment. The aim of this study was to compare the behavior of JWs regarding their approach to blood treatment and to smoking in relation to legal regulations in the field of health. We measured JWs’ compliance with health laws regarding blood treatment and smoking (the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control—FCTC). We used the concept of a semi-autonomous social field by Moore and the theory of planned behavior developed by Ajzen. Our findings show that in the case of JWs, the group rules often prevail over state rules contained in generally-binding legislation. In the case of smoking, this means that they seem compliant to the FCTC and to their group rules. In the case of blood treatment, it seems that they are breaking the national rules, because of their group rules. Breaking the latter can result in exclusion from the JWs community. JWs are compliant with national laws as long as these are congruent with their own group rules. If this is not the case, the group influence is very strong and the fear of exclusion from the JW group is often greater than the potential negative health consequences in real life. Full article
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