Social Capital and Health Volume 12 || Actual or Potential Neighborhood Resources for Health

✍ Scribed by Kawachi, Ichiro; Subramanian, S.V.; Kim, Daniel

• Book ID: 115510458
• Publisher: Springer New York
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 191 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0387713115
• DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71311-3_5

✦ Synopsis

Social Capital and Health discusses social capital—a concept that originated in the social sciences—and its application to the field of public health. The editors take care to define the concept of social capital, describe its theoretical origins, and discuss the controversies and debates surrounding the use of the concept in public health research and practice. The book provides a comprehensive "tool kit" of current approaches to measure social capital. Further, the book surveys the empirical evidence linking social capital to physical and mental health outcomes, health-related behaviors (like smoking), and aging-related outcomes.