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Network-Based Approaches for Measuring Social Capital

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Social Capital and Health

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A variety of disciplines, ranging from sociology to public health, have struggled with the conceptualization and measurement of social capital. Differences in the approach used to measure social capital may contribute to variations in the observed relationships between social capital and individual and population health across studies. As well, the heavy reliance on communitarian measures of social capital in public health may truncate the field’s understanding of the relationship between social capital and health (Moore, Shiell, Hawe, & Haines, 2005).

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  1. Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Alhambra, CA, USA

    Cynthia M. Lakon PhD

  2. University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    Dionne C. Godette PhD

  3. University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

    John R. Hipp MS, PhD

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Lakon, C.M., Godette, D.C., Hipp, J.R. (2008). Network-Based Approaches for Measuring Social Capital. In: Kawachi, I., Subramanian, S., Kim, D. (eds) Social Capital and Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71311-3_4

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