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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.

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.