Is Social Capital the Key to Inequalities in Health?

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dc.contributor.authorPearce, Neil
dc.contributor.authorSmith, George Davey
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:01:03Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:01:03Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.description.abstractThere has been vigorous debate between the “social capital” and “neomaterialist” interpretations of the epidemiological evidence regarding socioeconomic determinants of health. We argue that levels of income inequality, social capital, and health in a community may all be consequences of more macrolevel social and economic processes that influence health across the life course. We discuss the many reasons for the prominence of social capital theory, and the potential drawbacks to making social capital a major focus of social policy. Intervening in communities to increase their levels of social capital may be ineffective, create resentment, and overload community resources, and to take such an approach may be to “blame the victim” at the community level while ignoring the health effects of macrolevel social and economic policies.
dc.description.urihttps://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.93.1.122
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/ipis-tf36
dc.identifier.citationPearce, Neil and Smith, George Davey (2003) Is Social Capital the Key to Inequalities in Health? American Journal of Public Health, 93 (1). pp. 122-129.
dc.identifier.issn0090-0036
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 950
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22909
dc.subjectHealth Equity
dc.subjectPolicy
dc.subjectsocial capital theory
dc.subjectneomaterialist interpretation
dc.subjectepidemiological evidence
dc.subjectsocioeconomic determinants of health
dc.subjectincome inequality
dc.subjecthealth in a community
dc.subjectsocial policy
dc.subjectblame the victim
dc.titleIs Social Capital the Key to Inequalities in Health?
dc.typeArticle

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