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International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(4):989-993; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl117
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Commentary: Social capital and health: making the connections one step at a time

Ichiro Kawachi

Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. E-mail: Ichiro.Kawachi@channing.harvard.edu.

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The study by Tony Blakely et al.1 in this issue of the journal adds to the growing international evidence suggesting that social capital matters less for the health of residents in comparatively egalitarian countries, in contrast to highly unequal societies with inadequate safety nets. Although New Zealand experienced dramatic surges in income inequality following the structural reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, the country, nonetheless, managed to preserve robust support for public infrastructure (e.g. primary health care services, public education) that arguably helps to mitigate the consequences of rising inequality.

The New Zealand study is broadly consistent with the survey of literature on social capital and health carried out recently by Islam et al.2 The authors identified 42 studies on social capital and health published between 1995 and 2005, including 30 single-level studies (either individual-level or ecological data) as well as 12 multilevel studies from different countries. Regardless . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   ‘Cohesion’ vs ‘network’ theories of social capital
 

   Bonding and bridging social capital
 

   Next step
 

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