Lin Song, Cleothia Frazier, and Phillip J. Pettis explain how network- and resource-based social capital leads to positive health consequences or inequalities in people’s health status in that people with more social capital are more advantaged in the maintenance and protection of health.

Spencer Moore, Stephanie Child, Yun-Hsuan, and Jennifer Mandelbaum

M. Kamrul Islam and Lorenzo Rocco attack the major issues troubling studies of Social Capital’s (SC) influence on health.

Jean Guo, Setti Raïs Ali, and Lise Rochaix demonstrate how improvements in community social capital cause better community health.

Sherman Folland describes the tradeoff between risk-taking and gains in social capital.