Social support and social cohesion

Abstract

Abstract This chapter discusses the impact of social support on health. It shows that social support has a wide spectrum of action on health, from influencing mortality at one end, through physical morbidity to psychological morbidity at the other end. Social support is a very personal matter and yet research shows that it is influenced by social structural imperatives and becomes more than the sum of the individual links of networks in terms of social cohesion. At the level of society, social cohesion can have a powerful effect on health which transcends that available from individual social relationships. This has implications for improving the health of communities.

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