Intersections of compassion, science, and spiritual care in global health for public health benefits

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Orogun, Daniel
Harris, Harriet

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Springer

Abstract

Across the globe, spiritual care is offered by individuals, healthcare chaplains, and humanitarian, social and related spiritual groups on account of zeal, voluntary and paid services. Sometimes, services are provided without understanding the connectivity of compassion, spiritual care, and scientific protocols. There are instances where health professionals and managers disagree with spiritual caregivers or reject spiritual services because of poor service deliveries in conflict with healthcare protocols. Against this background, this article focuses on how spiritual care services can be provided scientifically to improve service delivery. It presents leading questions to link the scientific and compassionate approach to spiritual care. These include- What is science? What is compassion? What is spiritual care? What makes compassion and spiritual care scientific? Are there tenets of compassion in religions? How are compassion, science and spiritual care linked? What are the implications of the intersections for public health and safety? Hopefully, the provided answers may improve the service delivery performance of spiritual caregivers and their collaboration with healthcare professionals, social workers, and related groups.

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Compassion, Science, Spiritual care, Caregivers, Healthcare, Methodology, Service delivery, Chaplain, SDG-03: Good health and well-being

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SDG-03:Good heatlh and well-being

Citation

Orugun, D. & Harriet, H. 2024, 'Intersections of compassion, science, and spiritual care in global health for public health benefits', Journal of Religion and Health, vol. 63, pp. 4257-4257. https://DOI.org/10.1007/s10943-024-02145-x.