1350 Canadian Family Physician• Le Médecin de famille canadien❖ VOL 48: AUGUST•
AOÛT 2002 resources❖ ressources into a physical, economical, cultural, and social …

Social capital has been suggested as a community-level characteristic and research
exploring its link with population health has proliferated in the last decade. Increasingly …

T he social environment constitutes an important component of the human ecosystem and
frames our understanding of health and illness. Simply stated, the social …

Social determinants are gaining momentum in public health practice. Many proposed
solutions for tackling social determinants are outside the scope of local public health …

This chapter synthesizes relevant research from sociology, social epidemiology, psychology,
and public health to explicate the relationship between social capital and population health …

Research on the relationship between social capital and health is now over twenty years
old. Since Kawachi et al.,'s 1997 article “Social capital, income inequality, and mortality,” …

Interest in social capital and health has emerged at an exciting time. In public health, there is
a renewed interest in mechanisms that link social inequalities and health. In epidemiology …

T he notion that group-or community-level fac-tors may play an important causal role in the
health of individuals has received increasing attention in recent years. This interest reflects …

The World Bank sponsors a Web site devoted exclusively to the topic of social capital, where
information is exchanged and issues actively debated. Similarly, in a recent book published …

In this supplement we review relationships between the social environment and health,
explore methods for gauging communities' social resource needs, and propose health …