Social capital and health [electronic resource] / edited by Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian, Daniel Kim.
As interest in social capital has grown over the past decade—particularly in public health —so has the lack of consensus on exactly what it is and what makes it worth studying. Social Capital and Health presents the state of the debate, from definition to conceptualization, from effective measuremen...
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Table of Contents:
- Social capital and health: a decade of progress and beyond / Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian, and Daniel Kim
- Part I: Measurement of social capital. Measurement of individual social capital: questions, instruments, and measures / Martin van der Gaag and Martin Webber ; The measurement of community social capital through surveys / Trudy Harpham ; Network-based approaches for measuring social capital / Cynthia M. Lakon, Dionne C. Godette, and John R. Hipp ; Actual or potential neighborhood resources for health: What can Bourdieu offer for understanding mechanisms linking social capital to health? / Richard M. Carpiano ; Social capital and public health: qualitative and ethnographic approaches / Rob Whitley ; The economic approach to cooperation and trust: lessons for the study of social capital and health / Lisa R. Anderson and Jennifer M. Mellor
- Part II: Empirical evidence. Social capital and physical health: a systematic review of the literature / Daniel Kim, S.V. Subramanian, and Ichiro Kawachi ; Social capital and mental health: an updated interdisciplinary review of primary evidence / Astier M. Almedom and Douglas Glandon ; Social capital and health-related behaviors / Martin Lindström ; Social capital and aging-related outcomes / Kathleen A. Cagney and Ming Wen ; Social capital and health communications / K. Viswanath ; Disaster preparedness and social capital / Howard K. Koh and Rebecca O. Cadigan.