Social capital and depressive symptoms: The association of psychosocial and network dimensions of social capital with depressive symptoms in Montreal, Canada

Towards a Complexity-Friendly Policy: Breaking the Vicious Circle of Equilibrium Thinking in Economics and Public Policy

“…A similar effect of social network externalities on health was found in studies evaluating smoking [16], food choices [36], alcohol consumption [25,35] sexually transmitted diseases [5,8,23,40] In these cases, the social determinants of lifestyles and habits, pre-existing social norms and social influence pressures explain the diffusion of unhealthy behaviours and the related diseases.…”

Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease

“…Social environment characteristics such as trust and social cohesion also have been shown to be associated with depressive symptoms and overall mental health, 164,165 even after adjustment for demographic and socioeconomic variables, 164,166 and limited social support or social network and discrimination, often experienced among disadvantaged groups, 167 are associated with emotional health. Racial discrimination and other forms of discrimination that are perceived as stressful are associated with depression and anxiety.…”

Perceived neighbourhood cohesion and health among mid-aged Australian women

“…[45] These two mechanisms are also thought to apply to social cohesion. [39,43,46,47] Higher levels of social cohesion have been associated with lower levels of anxiety and depression in both developed and developing countries, [15,[48][49][50][51][52][53][54] and this association may be stronger for women than men. [52,[55][56][57][58][59][60] Higher levels of social cohesion have also been associated with better self-rated health, [38,[61][62][63][64] and fewer chronic illnesses.…”

“…[10][11][12] There is now compelling evidence that social relationships and interactions are associated with health and mortality. [13][14][15][16] Figure 1.1: Schema of the terms used in this thesis and the relationships between "social cohesion", "social capital", "neighbourhood social cohesion", "neighbourhood cohesion" and "perceived neighbourhood cohesion"…”

“…[18,179] This conceptualisation of social support overlaps with the dimensions of social capital that relate to social participation and social networks. [15,214,215] While the size of social networks has been associated with health, [18,[216][217][218] it appears that the functional value of social relationships is more consistently associated with health. [13,19,44,[218][219][220][221][222] The other major conceptualisation of social support relates to its functional value.…”