Testing the association between social capital and health over time: a family-based design.

Summary, in English

The past decade has seen a vast increase in empirical research investigating associations between social capital and health outcomes. Literature reviews reveal 'generalized trust' and 'social participation' to be the most robust of the commonly used social capital proxies, both showing positive association with health outcomes. However, this association could be confounded by unmeasured factors, such as the shared environment. Currently, there is a distinct lack of social capital research that takes into account such residual confounding.

• Author: Giuseppe Nicola Giordano; Juan Merlo; Henrik Ohlsson; Maria Rosvall; Martin Lindström
• Department/s: Social Medicine and Health Policy; Social Epidemiology; Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publishing year: 2013
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: BMC Public Health
• Volume: 13
• Issue: Jul,17
• Full text: - 296 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23866259?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-665
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: BioMed Central (BMC)
• Topic: Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Status: Published
• Research group: Social Medicine and Health Policy; Social Epidemiology; Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1471-2458