The state of public health in Russia is undoubtedly poor compared with other European
countries. The health crisis that has characterised the transition period has been attributed to …

Social capital is a concept that attempts to describe the quantity and quality of social
interactions in a community. This study explores the relationship between individual …

Objective This paper seeks to compare the relationships between social capital and health
for rural and urban residents of South Australia. Methods Using data from a South Australian …

Objectives: Social capital has been linked to self rated health and mortality rates. The
authors examined the relations between measures of social capital and male/female …

Social capital is associated with better health, but components of social capital and their
associations with different types of health are rarely explored together. The aim of this study …

In Finland, members of the Swedish‐speaking minority, many of whom live in the province of
Ostrobothnia, intermingle with the Finnish‐speaking majority. Although the two language …

The aim of this study was to examine the association between individual-level social capital
and two aspects of self-reported health—self-rated health and psychological health—in …

There is a growing literature demonstrating the health benefits of social capital (defined as
the resources accessed through social connections). However, social capital is also …

Background Few studies have examined the potential difference in the relationship between
bonding versus bridging social capital and health outcomes. We sought to examine the …

Social capital has grown out of the recognition that health-related behaviours are shaped
and constrained by a range of social and community contexts and that the ways in which an …