下記7件の科学的研究により、超越瞑想により「ヘルスケアの利用と費用の減少」が認められました。
Decreased Health Care Costs and Utilization
- Herron, R. E. Changes in Physician Costs Among High-Cost Transcendental Meditation Practitioners Compared with High-Cost Non-practitioners Over 5 Years. American Journal of Health Promotion2011; 26(1): 56–60.
- Herron R. E. Can the Transcendental Meditation Program Reduce the Medical Expenditures of Older People? A Longitudinal Cost-Reduction Study in Canada. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality 2005; 17(1): 415–442.
- Herron, R. E., Hillis, S. L. The Impact of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Government Payments to Physicians in Quebec: An Update. American Journal of Health Promotion2000; 14(5): 284–291.
- Orme-Johnson D. W., Herron R. E. An Innovative Approach to Reducing Medical Care Utilization and Expenditures. American Journal of Managed Care1997; 3: 135–144.
- Herron R. E., et al. The Impact of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Government Payments to Physicians in Quebec.American Journal of Health Promotion 1996; 10: 208–216.
- Herron, R.E., et al. Cost-Effective Hypertension Management: Comparison of Drug Therapies with an Alternative Program. American Journal of Managed Care 1996; Vol. II(4): 427–437.
- Orme-Johnson D.W. Medical Care Utilization and the Transcendental Meditation Program.Psychosomatic Medicine 1987; 49: 493–507.