The second half surveys the empirical data on social capital in key health areas. Among the highlights: Toward a definition: Individual or group entity? Negative as well as positive effects?
The book is organized in three parts: Part 1. Emerging directions in social capital research. This section highlights novel directions in social capital research.
"Eleven fully updated chapters include entries on the links between health and discrimination, income inequality, social networks and emotion, while four all-new chapters examine the role of policies in shaping health, including how to ...
With excellent contributions from leading academics, the Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health offers a developed examination of new research across sociology, epidemiology, economics, psychology, and political science.
Social capital networks have traditionally been classified by their strength as having weak ties or strong ties. In his seminal article entitled The strength of weak ties, Mark S. Granovetter (1973) argued that the degree of overlap of ...
Why do some areas have a higher prevalence of mental illness than others? This book explores the concept of social capital & its implications for mental health policy.
This book defines the field of social capital and health.
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Social Capital and Health
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This open access book is the first compilation that reviews a wide range of social determinants of health (SDHs) for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and healthy ageing in Japan.