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Jean Calvin, Calvinism, and population health: impressions from Switzerland
Johan MackenbachDepartment of Public Health, Erasmus MC PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Correspondence: Johan Mackenbach, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands, e-mail: j.mackenbach@erasmusmc.nl
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Is religion still important for population health? As John-Paul Vader noted in his recent editorial in this journal, which accompanied the annual European Public Health Association meeting in Montreux, this is an under-researched question.1 And in an increasingly secularized continent like Europe the answer is certainly far from obvious. After the Montreux meeting I therefore decided to go to Geneva, the great city of the Reformation. I went to see the new Musée International de la Réformation, as well as