Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health

Contents:

1. Introduction
Sherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg

PART I Theories on how social capital improves health
2. How does social capital contribute to health?
Sherman Folland

3. History of social capital and health
M. Kamrul Islam

4. How social capital arises in areas
Tor Iversen and Tigist Woldetsadik Sommeno

PART II Special inquiries on social capital and health
5. Social capital and health across the life cycle
Eric Nauenberg

6. Religious and social capital and health
Ephraim Shapiro and Chen Sharony

PART III Empirical evidence: does social capital improve health?
7. Social capital in epidemiology
Martin Lindstroem

8. Social capital and aging brain health
Nicole D. Anderson

9. Social capital and types of illnesses: Where is it most effective?
M. Kamrul Islam, Sherman Folland and Oddvar Martin Kaarboe

10. Social capital and risk-taking behavior
Sherman Folland

PART IV Causality issues
11. Social capital and health interventions: Enhancing social capital to improve health
Jean Guo, Setti Rais Ali and Lise Rochaix

12. Does health affect social capital?
Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman

13. Trust promotes health: addressing reverse causality by studying children of immigrants
Martin Ljunge

14. Workplace social capital and sickness absence
M. Kamrul Islam and Lorenzo Rocco

PART V Sociology and social capital
15. Network approaches to the study of social capital and health
Spencer Moore, Stephanie Child, Yun-Hsuan Wu and Jennifer Mandelbaum

16. Do network members' resources generate health inequality? Social capital theory and beyond
Lijun Song, Cleothia G. Frazier and Philip J. Pettis

PART VI Social capital and health in world development
17. Social capital and health inequalities in developing countries: A case study for Indonesia
Florence Jusot and Marta Menendez

18. Social capital and economic growth
Soumyananda Dinda

Index

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• Doença e dependência: aspectos sociais
• Obras de referência
• Saude pública e medicina preventiva

Social capital; Social ties; Causality; Health; Social networks; Productivity