Overview
- 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
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book is a follow up to Social Capital and Health (2008), edited by Kawachi, Subramanian & Kim. Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health provides a timely update on emerging topics in a fast-growing field, and features contributions from an outstanding international team of scholars, selected from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds including: social epidemiology, medical geography, social psychology, social welfare and gerontology, pediatrics, political science, economics, and medical sociology. The book is organized in three parts: Part 1. Emerging directions in social capital research. This section highlights novel directions in social capital research. These include: a) novel settings for conducting research on social capital (workplaces, schools), b) new approaches for causal inference in social capital (instrumental variable analysis, twin fixed effects designs); c) cutting-edge directions for social capital research, including studies of the origins of community social capital, the use of social network analysis to investigate social capital, and novel methods for investigating the link between social capital and crime. Part 2. Social capital and health policy. The three chapters in this section highlight implications of social capital for interventions and health policy. Part 3. Social capital and health in global perspective The four chapters in this section look at research on social capital and health from a global perspective. The authors summarize the empirical studies on social capital and health conducted in each country/region, or each population group; discuss how the concept of social capital “translates” across different cultures; and identify challenges and future directions for research.
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Keywords
- Aging and public health
- GIS and public health
- Instrumental variable estimation
- Microfinance and social capital
- School social capital
- Social capital
- Social capital and crime
- Social capital and health outcomes
- Social capital and trust
- Social capital research methods
- Social cohesion
- Social networks and public health
- Social participation
- Workplace social capital
Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health
Editors: Ichiro Kawachi, Soshi Takao, S.V. Subramanian
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7464-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-7463-0Published: 07 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8760-0Published: 05 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-7464-7Published: 06 July 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 349
Topics: Epidemiology, Econometrics, Demography, Regional/Spatial Science