Capitale sociale e salute fisica
Letture essenziali
D’Hombres R., Rocco L., Shurcke M., Mckee M., (2010). Does social capital determine health? Evidence from eight transition countries. Health Economics 19, 56-74.
There is growing interest in the role of social relationships in explaining patterns of health. We...
Folland, S. (2007). Does community social capital contribute to population health? Social Science and Medicine 64, 2342–2354
Robert Putnam showed that a social capital index, created as a weighted sum of 14 variables chosen...
Folland, S. (2006). Value of life and behavior toward health risks: an interpretation of social capital. Health Economics 15 (2), 159–171.
An individual assessing a risky job can be understood as a public good. He and each of his valued...
Letture importanti
Kawachi I., Kennedy B. P., Glass R., (1999). Social capital and self-rated health: a contextual analysis. American Journal of Public Health, 89, 1187–1193.
OBJECTIVES: Social capital consists of features of social organization--such as trust between...
Kawachi I., Kennedy B. P., Lochner K., Prothrow-Stith D., (1997). Social capital, income inequality, and mortality. American Journal of Public Health 87, 1491–1498.
Objectives Recent studies have demonstrated that income inequality is related to mortality rates...
Kawachi, I., Subramanian, S.V.; Kim, Daniel (Eds.) (2008). Social Capital and Health. Springer
As interest in social capital has grown over the past decade—particularly in public...
Costa, D., Kahn, M. (2007). Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps. American Economic Review 97 (4): 1467-1487
Twenty-seven percent of the Union Army prisoners captured July 1863 or later died in captivity. At...
Fiorillo, D., Sabatini, F. (2011). Structural social capital and health in Italy. MPRA Paper 32392.
This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social...
Rocco, L., Fumagalli, E., Suhrcke, M. (2011). From social capital to health - and back. University of York Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Paper 11/21.
We assess the causal relationship between health and social capital, measured by generalized trust...
Folland, S., Rocco, L. (2014). The Economics of Social Capital and Health A Conceptual and Empirical Roadmap. Washington, D.C.: World Scientific.
This book edited by Sherman Folland and Lorenzo Rocco defines the field of social capital and...
Archivio della reading list
Fiorillo, D., Sabatini, F. (2011). An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship Between Social Interactions, Income and Health in Italy. Economics Bulletin 31 (2), 1336-1352
This paper carries out a preliminary and exploratory investigation into the effect of various...
Fiorillo, D., Sabatini, F. (2011). Quality and quantity: the role of social interactions in individual health. Social Science and Medicine, 73, 1644-1652.
The public health literature focusing on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that...
Folland, S. (2005). Smoking, Binge Drinking and the Social Capital of Marriage and Children. Oakland University Department of Economics, mimeo.
The paper develops a model of decision making under risk where the tradeoff between risk and reward...
Folland, S. (2005). The Quality of Mercy: Social Health Insurance in the Charitable Liberal State. International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 5 81), 23-46.
This paper has two, mutually supportive purposes: (1) to show that the modern economic rationale...
Folland, S. (2008). An economic model of social capital and health. Health Economics, Policy and Law 3, 333-348
This paper presents an economic model to connect with the substantial empirical literature on...
Fox, S. (2011). Medicine 2.0: Peer-to-peer healthcare. Pew Internet & American Life Research Center
Peer-to-peer healthcare is a way for people to do what they have always done – lend a hand,...
Fox, S. (2011). Mind the Gap: Peer-to-peer Healthcare. Pew Internet & American Life Research Center
Peer-to-peer healthcare acknowledges that patients and caregivers know things — about...
Frey, B., Savage, D. A., Trogler, B. (2010). Noblesse oblige? Determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 74, 1–11
This paper explores what determines the survival of people in a life-and-death situation. The...
Hurtado D, Kawachi I, Sudarsky J. (2011). Social capital and self-rated health in Colombia: the good, the bad and the ugly. Social Science and Medicine 72 (4), 584-90
Although there is increasing evidence supporting the associations between social capital and health...
Iversen, T. (2008). An exploratory study of associations between social capital and self-assessed health in Norway. Health Economics, Policy and Law 3, 349-364
The objective of this study is to estimate associations between social capital and health when...
Iwase T, Suzuki E, Fujiwara T, Takao S, Doi H, Kawachi I. (2010). Do bonding and bridging social capital have differential effects on self-rated health? A community based study in Japan. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 16
Background Few studies have examined the potential difference in the relationship between bonding...
Kath, E. (2010). Social relations and the Cuban health miracle. New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers
For Cuba's supporters, health is the most commonly cited evidence of the socialist system's...
Kawachi, I., Soshi, T., Subramanian, S.V. (Eds.) (2013). Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health. Springer.
A companion volume to Social Capital and Health (edited by Kawachi, Subramanian, and Kim) Covers...
Laporte, A., Nauenberg, E., Shen, L. (2008). Aging, social capital, and health care utilization in Canada. Health Economics, Policy and Law 3, 393-411
This paper examines relationships between aging, social capital, and healthcare utilization....
Mladovsky, P., Mossialos, E. (2008). A Conceptual Framework for Community-Based Health Insurance in Low-Income Countries: Social Capital and Economic Development. World Development 36 (4), 590-607.
The international policy model linking community-based health insurance (CBHI) and universal...