id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_rre2l3fclrbw3j634fbxcs4h4m A M Beck Health Enhancement and Companion Animal Ownership 1996.0 11 .pdf application/pdf 5796 1323 73 Health Enhancement and Companion Animal Ownership KEY WORDS: animals interaction, pets, epidemiology Epidemiological studies of pet animals with spontaneously occumng disease Differences were observed in the way pet owners talk to their animals by social stereotypes, but people find comfort in talking to their animals (32, 33). pet animals improves the social attractiveness of human subjects. people find joy and even humor in interacting with animals. when people and animals interact (9). promoted interest in funding studies on the links between human-animal interactions and cardiovascular health. about pet ownership and attachment to animals. Most grants to study human-animal interactions are for At the final presentation of the 1987 NIH Technology Assessment Workshop, Health Benefits of Pets, Beck & Glickman (7) proposed that "All future studies of human health should consider the presence or absence of a pet in benefits of human-animal interactions. contact with other people by pet dogs. ./cache/work_rre2l3fclrbw3j634fbxcs4h4m.pdf ./txt/work_rre2l3fclrbw3j634fbxcs4h4m.txt