Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health

Summary Blog Post from Sherman Folland

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 

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