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International Journal of Epidemiology 2004 33(4):672-674; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh179
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IJE vol.33 no.4 © International Epidemiological Association 2004; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: Is capital the solution or the problem?

Vicente Navarro

The Johns Hopkins Universiry, USA and the Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

Correspondence: Prof V Navarro, The Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205-2179, USA. E-mail: vnavarro@jhsph.edu

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Simon Szreter of Cambridge University and Michael Woolcock of the World Bank and Harvard University have written an article, ‘Health by association? Social capital, social theory and the political economy of public health,’1 that is fairly representative of writings in the US and the UK on the fashionable concept of social capital. Their intent is to link the different uses made by public health researchers of the concept of social capital, in an attempt to synthesize the different interpretations and uses of that concept. Written in an unnecessarily cumbersome way (academic papers can and should be written in a less jargonistic fashion than they frequently are), the article promotes the concept of social capital (the authors' own version, which builds on Robert Putnam's) and stresses its policy implications. Szreter and Woolcock conclude, for example, that the Swedish welfare society provides greater social capital to its citizens than do other societies. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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