Investments in social capital—implications of social interactions for the production of health

Bolin, Kristian; Lindgren, Björn; Lindström, Martin; Nystedt, Paul

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(02)00242-3

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“…For SPH status, in line with previous studies for the whole population (Bolin et al 2003;Hyyppä and Mäki 2003;Poortinga 2006a,b), we find the individual social relations variable positively associated with the probability of declaring good self-perceived health while the contextual social relations variable is not found statistically significant. Novel results regard chronic conditions and limitations in daily activities status.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…In particular, being separated and/or divorced is negatively associated, respectively, with a 1.6 and 3.4 percent higher probability of declaring good perceived health (moving from fair perceived state). Previous empirical studies on whole population found similar evidence (Bolin et al 2003;Hyyppä and Mäki 2003;Iversen 2008). Moreover, having children aged 6-15 is negatively statistically correlated (at 10%) with SPH, too.…”

Section: Self-perceived Healthsupporting

confidence: 69%

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Workers’ health and social relations in Italy

Fiorillo

2016

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The paper investigates whether social relations are associated with the health of workers after controlling for demographic and worker characteristics, housing features, neighbourhood quality, size of municipality and regional dummies. We consider two level of social relationships: i) individual social relations that we proxy by the frequency of meetings with friends, and; ii) contextual social relations, the average frequency with which people meet friends at the community level. A Heckman selection model is estimated from the worker sample, employing both self-reported and objective health measures using new data from an income and living conditions survey carried out in 2006 by the Italian Statistics Office (IT-SILC). Results show that social relations at the individual level are positively correlated with self-perceived health, negatively associated with chronic condition but not related to limitations in daily activities. Contextual social relations are negatively linked with chronic condition and limitations in daily activities but not correlated with self-perceived health.JEL Codes: C35; I12; I18; Z1

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Workers’ health and social relations in Italy

Fiorillo

2016

JES

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“…Esta não pretende ser uma revisão completa, visto que novas evidências aparecem rapidamente. Com relação à saúde vários níveis de análise têm sido propostos: (i) indivíduos ou domicílios 53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65 ; (ii) vizinhança ou bairros 51,66,67,68,69,70,71 ; (iii) regiões 72,73 ; (iv) Estados de um único país 74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91 ; e (v) entre países 92,93 .…”

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Capital social e a agenda de pesquisa em epidemiologia

Pattussi

Moysés²,

Junges

et al. 2006

Cad. Saúde Pública

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IntroduçãoNos últimos anos, o conceito de "capital social" tem sido utilizado na literatura internacional em uma vasta gama de disciplinas entre as quais: sociologia, antropologia, educação, economia, ciências políticas, criminologia e saúde pública. Trata-se de um conceito desafiador, pois incorpora o freqüentemente negligenciado "social" com o onipotente "capital". Capital social enfatiza o fato de que formas e relações não-monetárias podem ser importantes fontes de poder e influência 1 .Sua proeminência recente, na área da saú-de, é simultânea ao momento em que a epidemiologia está passando por uma profunda revisão crítica de suas próprias capacidades para capturar fenômenos sociais 2 . A literatura corrente também evidencia que, devido ao fato de o conceito ser entendido e avaliado de diferentes formas, muitas críticas têm sido feitas quanto ao seu uso 3,4 .No entanto, um grande e crescente número de pesquisas tem sugerido que capital social favorece a saúde das pessoas. Sociedades com altos níveis de capital social parecem ser mais igualitárias, as pessoas são mais envolvidas na vida pública, vivem mais, são menos violentas e avaliam melhor a sua própria saúde 5,6,7 .O principal objetivo deste artigo é revisar, na literatura epidemiológica, a relação estabelecida entre o conceito de capital social e o pro-

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“…Since its introduction, the demand-for-health model has been extended in various ways; incorporating risk and uncertainty Wagstaff, 1987, 1990;Selden, 1993;Chang, 1996;Liljas, 1998Liljas, , 2000Picone et al, 1998;Asano and Shibata, 2011), the family as producer of health (Jacobson, 2000;Bolin et al, 2001Bolin et al, , 2002b, the employer as producer of health (Bolin et al, 2002c), social capital (Bolin et al, 2003), healthy and unhealthy consumption (Forster, 2001), decreasing returns to scale in the production of health investment (Ehrlich and Chuma, 1990;Galama, 2011), imperfect financial markets (Liljas, 2000(Liljas, , 2002, and allowing for corner solutions (Galama and Kapteyn, 2011). To our knowledge, however, the effect on the demand for health and health investments of the double-facetted nature of individual behaviours with physiologically determined optimal levels as regards health and negative or positive health effects, depending on the level of activity, has never been analysed.…”

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Non-monotonic health behaviours – implications for individual health-related behaviour in a demand-for-health framework

Bolin

Lindgren

2016

Journal of Health Economics

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A number of behaviours influence health in a non-monotonic way. Physical activity and alcohol consumption, for instance, may be beneficial to one's health in moderate but detrimental in large quantities. We develop a demand-for-health framework that incorporates the feature of a physiologically optimal level. An individual may still choose a physiologically non-optimal level, because of the trade-off in his or her preferences for health versus other utility-affecting commodities. However, any deviation from the physiologically optimal level will be punished with respect to health. A set of steady-state comparative statics is derived regarding the effects on the demand for health and health-related behaviour, indicating that individuals will react differently to exogenous changes, depending on the amount of the health-related behaviour they demand. We also show (a) that a steady-state equilibrium is a saddle-point and (b) that the physiologically optimal level may be a steady-state equilibrium for the individual. Our analysis suggests that general public-health policies may, to some extent, be counterproductive due to the responses induced in parts of the population.

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Investments in social capital—implications of social interactions for the production of health

Cited by 150 publications

References 46 publications

Workers’ health and social relations in Italy

Workers’ health and social relations in Italy

Capital social e a agenda de pesquisa em epidemiologia

Non-monotonic health behaviours – implications for individual health-related behaviour in a demand-for-health framework

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