Social capital, geography and health: a small-area analysis for England

Mohan, John; Twigg, Liz; Barnard, Steve; Jones, Kelvyn

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.06.050

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“…Most studies have considered collective efficacy and neighbourhood disorder (Aneshensel & Sucoff, 1996;Ross & Mirowsky, 2001;Weden et al, 2008), social stress (Pattyn et al, 2011), and collective social capital (Carpiano, 2007;Drukker et al, 2003;Mohan et al, 2005;Stafford et al, 2008) to explain this link between neighbourhood disadvantage and health. However, very few studies have examined the role of individual social capital, among other mechanisms, in mediating the relationship between neighbourhood disadvantage and health (Carpiano, 2006;Cattell, 2001).…”

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“…Moreover, our multi-level analyses are based on a large-scale, representative sample of England"s adult population and neighbourhoods. Previous studies in England have examined associations of trust and social participation with health (Giordano & Lindström, 2010;Giordano et al, 2011;Mohan et al, 2005;Poortinga, 2006), or have examined associations of network resources with health (Webber & Huxley, 2007), but these associations have never been investigated simultaneously.…”

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Individual social capital, neighbourhood deprivation, and self-rated health in England

Verhaeghe

Tampubolon

2012

Social Science & Medicine

119

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Individual social capital is increasingly considered to be an important determinant of an individual"s health. This study examines the extent to which individual social capital is associated with self-rated health and the extent to which individual social capital mediates the relationship between neighbourhood deprivation and self-rated health in an English sample. Individual social capital was conceptualized and operationalized in both the social cohesion-and network resource tradition, using measures of generalized trust, social participation and social network resources. Network resourceswere measured with the position generator. Multilevel analyses were applied to wave 2 and 3 of the Taking Part Surveys of England, which consist of face-to-face interviews among the adult population in England (N i =25,366 respondents, N j =12,388 neighbourhoods). The results indicate that generalized trust, participation with friends and relatives and having network members from the salariat class are positively associated with self-rated health. Having network members from the working class is, however, negatively related to self-rated health. Moreover, these social capital elements are partly mediating the negative relationship between neighbourhood deprivation and self-rated health.

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Individual social capital, neighbourhood deprivation, and self-rated health in England

Verhaeghe

Tampubolon

2012

Social Science & Medicine

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“…This could be because urbanisation is associated with an increase in environmental health risks, risk behaviour, stress, and low socio-economic status. 12,[23][24][25] Of the 12 provinces, Zeeland showed the highest MMR, which is significantly different from the rest of the NS, not significant. P is calculated using the chi-squared test.…”

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Regional differences in Dutch maternal mortality

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Schutte

Poeran

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Objective To study regional differences in maternal mortality in the Netherlands.Design Confidential inquiry into the causes of maternal mortality.Setting Nationwide.Population A total of 3 108 235 live births and 337 maternal deaths.Methods Data analysis of all maternal deaths in the period 1993-2008.Main outcome measure Maternal mortality.Results The overall national maternal mortality ratio was 10.8 per 100 000 live births. In the 12 provinces of the Netherlands, the maternal mortality ratio ranged from 6.2 in Noord Brabant to 16.3 per 100 000 live births in Zeeland. In the four largest cities, maternal mortality varied from 9.3 in Amsterdam to 21.0 in Rotterdam. At a national level, the most frequent direct cause was pre-eclampsia. Increased risks for maternal mortality were found for women living in deprived neighbourhoods (RR 1.41), women from non-Western origin (RR 1.59), and women who were 35 years or older (RR 1.61).Conclusion There are significant variations in maternal mortality ratios in the Netherlands between cities, provinces, and neighbourhoods. In addition, higher maternal mortality was observed in women of non-Western origin and in women who were 35 years of age or older.

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“…Overall, these geographical contributions are critical of social capital as articulated within health-related (Mohan et al, 2005) or development fields (DeFilippis, 2001;Amin, 2005;Radcliffe, 2004 Arguably, the apparently contradictory positions of social capital within policy arenas and human geography debates are interconnected. Although geographers, in common with many social scientists, are highly sceptical of the neo-liberal v underpinnings and apparent 'panacea' (Fine, 2001) status of dominant representations of social capital (Amin, 2005;Mohan and Mohan, 2002), these facets are attractive to many policymakers, given the generalized neo-liberal shift in global and national governance.…”

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“…The general consensus that social capital is constructed through formal, and to a lesser extent, informal social networks has been widely adopted, even within critical accounts (e.g. Li et al, 2002Li et al, , 2003aLi et al, , 2003bMohan et al, 2005). Formal networks within voluntary associations are often prioritized.…”

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Embodied social capital and geographic perspectives: performing the habitus

Holt

2008

Progress in Human Geography

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This paper re-opens debates of geographic theorizations and conceptualizations of social capital. I argue that human geographers have tended to underplay the analytic value of social capital, by equating the concept with dominant policy interpretations.It is contended that geographers could more explicitly contribute to pervasive critical social science accounts. With this in mind, an embodied perspective of social capital is constructed. This synthesizes Bourdieu's capitals and performative theorizations of identity, to progresses the concept of social capital in four key ways. First, this theorization more fully reconnects embodied differences to broader socio-economic processes. Second, an exploration of how embodied social differences can emerge directly from the political-economy and/or via broader operations of power is facilitated. Third, a path is charted through the endurance of embodied inequalities and the potential for social transformation. Finally, embodied social capital can advance social science conceptualizations of the spatiality of social capital, by illuminating the importance of broader socio-spatial contexts and relations to the embodiment of social capital within individuals.

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Social capital, geography and health: a small-area analysis for England

Cited by 121 publications

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Individual social capital, neighbourhood deprivation, and self-rated health in England

Individual social capital, neighbourhood deprivation, and self-rated health in England

Regional differences in Dutch maternal mortality

Embodied social capital and geographic perspectives: performing the habitus

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