Social capital and health inequality in European welfare states
[Book]
Mikael Rostila.
Houndmills
Palgrave Macmillan
2013
Theoretical Foundations of Social Capital in Health Research --;Social Capital and Welfare: Do Universal Welfare State 'Crowd Out' or Stimulate Social Capital? --;Social Capital and Health: Mechanisms and Empirical Findings --;Health Inequalities by Education in European Welfare Regimes: The Contribution of Individual Social Capital --;Health Inequalities Between European Welfare Regimes: The Contribution of Collective Social Capital --;Social Capital and health Inequality in the Social-Democratic Swedish Welfare State --;The Dark Sides of Social Capital: Homophily and Closure of Immigrants Social Networks in the Swedish Welfare State --;Concluding Discussion.
Drawing on cross-national European data from the European Social Survey as well as Swedish national survey data and registers, this book investigates social capital in relation to health and health inequalities in European welfare states.