Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health

Summary Blog Post from Sherman Folland

The Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health, edited by Sherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg, presents new research from each of the social science disciplines: sociology, epidemiology, political science, economics, and history. The contributing authors are from a wide geographic area – Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. Each of the 18 chapters have been summarised and posted on Elgar.Blog. The list below contains links to each chapter’s blog post.

This book can be purchased in print via e-elgar.com and is also available online via Elgaronline.

INTRODUCTION

The Importance of being social – Sherman Folland 

PART I THEORIES ON HOW SOCIAL CAPITAL IMPROVES HEALTH 

How does social capital contribute to health? – Sherman Folland 

History of social capital and health – M. Kamrul Islam 

How social capital arises in areas – Tor Iversen and Tigist Woldetsadik Sommeno 

PART II SPECIAL INQUIRIES ON SOCIAL CAPITAL AND HEALTH 

Social capital and health across the life cycle – Eric Nauenberg 

Religious and social capital and health – Ephraim Shapiro and Chen Sharony 

PART III EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE: DOES SOCIAL CAPITAL IMPROVE HEALTH? 

Social capital in epidemiology – Martin Lindström 

Social capital and aging brain health – Nicole D. Anderson 

Social capital and types of illness: where is it most effective? – M. Kamrul Islam, Sherman Folland and Oddvar Martin Kaarbøe 

Social capital and risk-taking behavior – Sherman Folland 

PART IV CAUSALITY ISSUES 

Social capital and health interventions: enhancing social capital to improve health – Jean Guo, Setti Raïs Ali and Lise Rochaix 

Does health affect social capital? – Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman 

Trust promotes health: addressing reverse causality by studying children of immigrants – Martin Ljunge 

Workplace social capital and sickness absence – M. Kamrul Islam and Lorenzo Rocco 

PART V SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL CAPITAL 

Network approaches to the study of social capital and health – Spencer Moore, Stephanie Child, Yun-Hsuan Wu and Jennifer Mandelbaum 

Do network members’ resources generate health inequality? Social capital theory and beyond – Lijun Song, Cleothia G. Frazier and Philip J. Pettis 

PART VI SOCIAL CAPITAL AND HEALTH IN WORLD DEVELOPMENT 

Social capital and health inequalities in developing countries: a case study for Indonesia – Florence Jusot and Marta Menéndez 

Social capital and economic growth – Soumyananda Dinda 


Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health edited by Sherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg is out now.

Read chapter one free on Elgaronline

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