Healthy Ties
Social Capital, Population Health and Survival
Authors: Hyyppä, Markku T.
Free Preview- Prospective empirical data, based on nationwide population health surveys
- Cultural, rather than regional, inequalities in social capital and health
- Includes data on an exceptionally healthy community that is rich in social capital
- Carefully examines effects of social capital on public health
- Assesses the 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. Well aware of the rule of thumb that minorities do worse than their respective majorities in terms of well-being and health, the author presents this exceptional phenomenon as an excellent area for social capital and public health research. Healthy ties. Social capital, population health and survival should inspire scholars, researchers, teachers and advanced students in social epidemiology and public health, and lead to new interventions in promoting health.
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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What Is Social Capital?
Pages 1-7
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Definitions and Forms of Social Capital
Pages 9-19
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Measuring Social Capital
Pages 21-37
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Social Participation
Pages 39-42
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How Does Cultural Participation Contribute to Social Capital and Well-Being?
Pages 43-53
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Healthy Ties
- Book Subtitle
- Social Capital, Population Health and Survival
- Authors
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- Markku T. Hyyppä
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-90-481-9606-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-90-481-9606-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-9605-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-9791-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 163
- Topics
