Healthy Ties Social Capital, Population Health and Survival /

• Main Author: Hyypp,̃ Markku T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Epidemiology.; Quality of Life.; Quality of Life > Research.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Quality of Life Research.; Sociology, general.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9606-7

Social capital is a widely acknowledged candidate for implementing beneficial democratic processes and promoting public health. Healthy ties. Social capital, population health and survival traces the path from the conceptualization to the implementation of social capital. To provide empirical proof...

Table of Contents:

• Preface.1.What is social capital?- 2. Definitions and forms of social capital
• 3. Measuring social capital
• 4. Social participation
• 5. How does cultural participation contribute to social capital?- 6. Social trust, mistrust and reciprocity
• 7. Cross-sectional studies of social capital and health
• 8. Prospective longitudinal surveys
• 9. Healthy communities
• 10. Social capital and health from cradle to grave
• 11. Gendering social capital and population health
• 12. Health-related behaviors
• 13. Proposed biological mediating mechanisms
• 14. Emergent social capital
• 15. Implications
• Closing remarks
• References.