Labor

Now It's Time to Implement Social Capital and Sexually Transmitted Infection/HIV Interventions in the United States

“…Owusu-Edusei et al 8 note that social capital includes 2 domains (cognitive and structural) and that definitions and indices depend on the developer and the researcher's field. Although true, the authors were unclear about their rationale for comparing the 2 selected social capital indices, which could have been addressed by explicitly identifying a theory based on the study aims and outline specific constructs that enable testing modifiable pathways to the STI outcomes 10,11 . The authors concluded that it may be important to understand communities' associational life, and that findings reinforce the potential to incorporate social capital concepts to control STIs.…”