Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health

ISBN-13: 9781461474630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 349 str.

Ichiro Kawachi; Soshi Takao; S. V. Subramanian

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Chapter 1.Introduction.-Chapter 2.Workplace Social Capital and Health.- Chapter 3.Social Capital in Schools.-Chapter 4.Causal Inference in Social Capital Research.-Chapter 5.Contextual Determinants of Community Social Capital.-Chapter 6.Neighborhood Social Capital and Crime.-Chapter 7.Disaster, Social Capital, and Health.-Chapter 8.Advancing Social Capital Interventions from a Network and Population Health Perspective.-Chapter 9.Social Capital Interventions to Promote Healthy Aging.-Chapter 10.Microfinance and Health.-Chapter 11.The Social Capital of Welfare States and Its Significance for Population Health.-Chapter 12.Social Capital, Social Policy and Health Disparities: A Legacy of Political Advocacy in African American Communities.-Chapter 13.What’s Wrong with Social Capital? Critiques from Social Science.-

Blurb

Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health

Ichiro Kawachi, Soshi Takao, and S.V. Subramanian, editors

The idea of social capital emerged in the social science disciplines to explain puzzling phenomena such as why some communities fare better in crisis than others. As the field matures, it has been adapted to wide-ranging issues such as population health. 

Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health presents the major research issues as well as nuanced theoretical discussion in keeping with an evolving field in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Background chapters analyze how social capital manifests in neighborhoods, workplaces, and schools, and its relationship to health. The book's second half offers guidelines for improving population health at the social capital level, and examples of interventions, such as microfinance programs, in which enhanced social capital and health benefits are a significant by-product. And a number of contributors debate the problems of defining the concept--and using the term at all. Included in the coverage:

 

• Contextual determinants of community social capital
• Causal inference in social capital research
• Advancing social capital interventions from a network and population health perspective
• The social capital of welfare states and its significance for population health
• Social capital interventions to promote healthy aging
• Social capital, social policy, and health disparities: a legacy of political advocacy in African-American communities

 

Because of its diverse scope, Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health will attract a wide audience among researchers and graduate students in public health, epidemiology, medical sociology, and economics.