The Group Effect Social Cohesion and Health Outcomes /

• Main Author: Bruhn, John. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Quality of Life.; Sociology.; Quality of Life > Research.; Consciousness.; Applied psychology.; Social Sciences.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen.; Quality of Life Research.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0364-8

Sociologists and anthropologists have had a long interest in studying the ways in which cultures shaped different patterns of health, disease, and mortality. Social scientists have documented low rates of chronic disease and disability in non-Western societies and have suggested that social stabilit...

Table of Contents:

• The Social Group as a Mediator of Health and Disease
• Social Cohesion as a Risk Factor
• Social Cohesion as a Predictor of Health Outcomes
• The Assessment of Social Cohesion
• Social Cohesion and Group Interventions
• Social Cohesion in Individualist Societies.