Community-based public health is the process of implementing initiatives designed to
address needs and assets that can demonstrate improvement in the overall health and well …

The goal of this article is to outline the analytical perspectives of the concept of social capital
regarding health and health management. Social capital, as defined in terms of social …

Objective Optimizing resources within environments where people live, work, and pray can
aid nurses in improving public health. Religion and social capital significantly influence the …

Local authorities and their partners are increasingly required to involve communities within
decision making (DETR, 1998; 2000a). Community involvement, and the subsequent …

On the one hand, millions of dollars are committed to alleviating ill-health through individual
intervention. Meanwhile we ignore what our everyday experience tells us, ie the way we …

The concept of social capital is examined in this chapter, focusing on the key components of
participation, trust and reciprocity, and social networks of bonding, bridging and linking ties …

In the wake of Robert Putnam's arrival in Italy to study regionalization, this review of the
literature on social capital aimed to establish whether current knowledge, social or socio …

The objective of the health promotion movement is to restore and develop local
communities. In this article, I discuss the way the health promotion movement seems to …

This article is a review of the PhD Thesis of Malin Eriksson, entitled 'Social capital, health
and community action–implications for health promotion'. The article presents a theoretical …

The debate about social environment, sustainability and health has been highlighted by the
interest in social capital. It has been suggested that social capital varies from place to place …