Herron, 1993
Herron, R. E. The Impact of Transcendental Meditation practice on medical expenditures. Dissertation Abstracts International 53(12):4219A, 1993.
Five hundred and ninety-nine people in Quebec, Canada, who learned the Transcendental Meditation program showed decreased expenses for physicians’ services during the following three years, controlling for age, gender, inflation, and time; greatest savings were found for those who previously had highest medical costs and for those over age 50.
- Year
- 1993
- Publication type
- Doctoral Dissertation
- Paper type
- Empirical
- Collected Papers
- Vol. 6, pp. 3919–3919
- Section
- Health
Findings (2)
Health Care Utilization
Decreased Payments for Physicians’ Services
Transcendental Meditation · Longitudinal with nonrandomized controls
Greatest Savings for Elderly and High Medical Cost People
Transcendental Meditation · Longitudinal with nonrandomized controls
Authors
- Robert E. Herron, PhD
Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA, USA