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Social Capital and Health

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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kawachi, Ichiro. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Subramanian, S.V. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kim, Daniel. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Subjects:
Public health.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Medicine.
Sociology.
Health promotion.
Epidemiology.
Public Health.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Sociology, general.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71311-3
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Table of Contents:
  • Social Capital and Health
  • Social Capital and Health
  • Measurement of Social Capital
  • Measurement of Individual Social Capital
  • The Measurement of Community Social Capital Through Surveys
  • Network-Based Approaches for Measuring Social Capital
  • Actual or Potential Neighborhood Resources for Health
  • Social Capital and Public Health
  • The Economic Approach to Cooperation and Trust
  • Empirical Evidence
  • Social Capital and Physical Health
  • Social Capital and Mental Health
  • Social Capital and Health-Related Behaviors
  • Social Capital and Aging-Related Outcomes*
  • Social Capital and Health Communications
  • Disaster Preparedness and Social Capital
  • Social Capital and Health.

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