Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health

Edited by the late Sherman Folland, formerly Department of Economics, Oakland University, US and Eric Nauenberg, University of Toronto, Canada

• Contents:1. IntroductionSherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg PART I Theories on how social capital improves health2. How does social capital contribute to health?Sherman Folland 3. History of social capital and healthM. Kamrul Islam 4. How social capital arises in areasTor Iversen and Tigist Woldetsadik SommenoPART II Special inquiries on social capital and health5. Social capital and health across the life cycleEric Nauenberg 6. Religious and social capital and healthEphraim Shapiro and Chen SharonyPART III Empirical evidence: does social capital improve health? 7. Social capital in epidemiologyMartin Lindström 8. Social capital and aging brain healthNicole D. Anderson 9. Social capital and types of illnesses: Where is it most effective?M. Kamrul Islam, Sherman Folland and Oddvar Martin Kaarbøe10. Social capital and risk-taking behaviorSherman FollandPART IV Causality issues11. Social capital and health interventions: Enhancing social capital to improve healthJean Guo, Setti Raïs Ali and Lise Rochaix 12. Does health affect social capital?Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman13. Trust promotes health: addressing reverse causality by studying children of immigrantsMartin Ljunge14. Workplace social capital and sickness absenceM. Kamrul Islam and Lorenzo RoccoPART V Sociology and social capital15. Network approaches to the study of social capital and healthSpencer Moore, Stephanie Child, Yun-Hsuan Wu and Jennifer Mandelbaum 16. Do network members’ resources generate health inequality? Social capital theory and beyondLijun Song, Cleothia G. Frazier and Philip J. PettisPART VI Social capital and health in world development17. Social capital and health inequalities in developing countries: A case study for IndonesiaFlorence Jusot and Marta Menéndez18. Social capital and economic growthSoumyananda DindaIndex

'Did you know that the concept of ''social capital'' can be traced to Marx? This Companion contains many more startling insights, not least due to its comprehensive review of worldwide empirical evidence suggesting that indeed social capital may have a causal effect not only on mental but also on physical health. Congratulations to the contributors!'--Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich, Switzerland