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Cross-Sectional Studies of Social Capital and Health

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A systematic literature review of research on the association between social capital and physical health (Kim et al. 2008) and interdisciplinary reviews of research concerning the association between social capital and mental health (Almedom 2005, DeSilva et al. 2005, Almedom and Glandon 2008) have been published recently, so in this chapter I will only shortly comment the earlier comprehensive reviews. Current interest in the role of social capital in terms of population health is global, for example, Latin-American studies have quite recently been reviewed by Kripper and Sapag (2009).

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Hyyppä, M.T. (2010). Cross-Sectional Studies of Social Capital and Health. In: Healthy Ties. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9606-7_7

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