Overview
- Prospective empirical data, based on nationwide population health surveys
- Cultural, rather than regional, inequalities in social capital and health
- Exceptionally healthy community that is rich in social capital
- Carefully examined effects of social capital on public health
- Significance of cultural traditions for social capital and health
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Social capital is a widely acknowledged candidate for implementing beneficial democratic processes and promoting public health. Healthy ties. Social capital, population health and survival traces the path from the conceptualization to the implementation of social capital. To provide empirical proof of the effects of social capital on public health is a serious challenge and the main focus of the book.
In the Nordic countries, personal identification codes linking data from various sources, nation-wide population registers, nationally representative and re-tested health surveys, and the long tradition of epidemiology submit to serve well the research into social capital and public health. Up-to-date longitudinal data on social capital and health outcomes are carefully described and reviewed in this book.
In Finland, the Swedish-speaking minority is very long-lived and has better health as compared with the Finnish-speaking majority.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Healthy Ties
Book Subtitle: Social Capital, Population Health and Survival
Authors: Markku T. Hyyppä
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9606-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9605-0Published: 14 September 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9791-8Published: 18 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9606-7Published: 02 September 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 163
Topics: Biomedicine general, Epidemiology, Quality of Life Research, Sociology, general, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention