Social Capital and Health

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kawachi, Ichiro (Editor), Subramanian, S.V (Editor), Kim, Daniel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Health promotion.; Epidemiology.; Sociology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Sociology, general.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

As interest in social capital has grown over the past decade—particularly in public health —so has the lack of consensus on exactly what it is and what makes it worth studying. Social Capital and Health presents the state of the debate, from definition to conceptualization, from effective measuremen...