A companion volume to Social Capital and Health (edited by Kawachi, Subramanian, and Kim)
Covers cutting edge issues in social capital research, including the use of novel approaches (e.g. geo-spatial analysis, social network methods) to elucidate the linkages between social capital and population health Provides an up-to-date survey of social capital research being conducted in the global context, spanning Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health
Ichiro Kawachi, Soshi Takao, and S.V. Subramanian, editors
Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health presents the major research issues as well as nuanced theoretical discussion in keeping with an evolving field in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Background chapters analyze how social capital manifests in neighborhoods, workplaces, and schools, and its relationship to health. The book's second half offers guidelines for improving population health at the social capital level, and examples of interventions, such as microfinance programs, in which enhanced social capital and health benefits are a significant by-product. And a number of contributors debate the problems of defining the concept--and using the term at all. Included in the coverage:
Contextual determinants of community social capital
- Causal inference in social capital research
- Advancing social capital interventions from a network and population health perspective
- The social capital of welfare states and its significance for population health
- Social capital interventions to promote healthy aging
- Social capital, social policy, and health disparities: a legacy of political advocacy in African-American communities
Because of its diverse scope, Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health will attract a wide audience among researchers and graduate students in public health, epidemiology, medical sociology, and economics.