Social Capital and Health: What the Empirical Literature Teaches Us?

Abstract

Over the last two decades no single concept has more aggressively captured the scholarly imagination in diverseacademic disciplines than social capital. Social scientists from various fields have posited its existence, deployedit in empirical studies, and have begun to suggest policy applications. As a result, social capital is noweverywhere, but nobody knows how it actually works. And this problem is even more prevalent in health than inany other field. In this setting, this brief article sets out to investigate what is known so far about the associationsbetween social capital and health, and offers suggestions as to how produce more health.

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