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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-3-2
pubmed:abstractText
Social capital refers to those features of social relationships--such as levels of interpersonal trust and norms of reciprocity and mutual aid--that facilitate collective action for mutual benefit. Social capital is believed to play an important role in the functioning of community life across a variety of domains, ranging from the prevention of juvenile delinquency and crime, the promotion of successful youth development, and the enhancement of schooling and education to the encouragement of political participation. More recently, researchers have begun to apply the concept to explain variations in health status across geographic localities. In preliminary analyses, the higher the stocks of social capital (as indicated by measures of trust and reciprocity in social surveys), the higher appear to be the health achievement of a given area. Strengthening the social capital within communities may provide an important avenue for reducing socioeconomic disparities in health.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0077-8923
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
896
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
120-30
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Child, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Child Development, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Child Welfare, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Community Networks, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Crime, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Educational Status, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Health Status, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Income, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Interpersonal Relations, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Juvenile Delinquency, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Mortality, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Politics, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Residence Characteristics, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Social Class, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Social Environment, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-Social Support, pubmed-meshheading:10681893-United States
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Social capital and community effects on population and individual health.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. Ichiro.Kawachi@channing.harvard.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review