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Social Capital and Health Inequality in European Welfare States

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Authors:
  1. Mikael Rostila

    1. Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Mikael Rostila
    Pages 1-17

  3. Theoretical Foundations of Social Capital in Health Research

    • Mikael Rostila
    Pages 18-41

  4. Social Capital and Welfare: Do Universal Welfare States “Crowd Out” or Stimulate Social Capital?

    • Mikael Rostila
    Pages 42-60

  5. Social Capital and Health: Mechanisms and Empirical Findings

    • Mikael Rostila
    Pages 61-85

  6. Health Inequalities by Education in European Welfare Regimes: The Contribution of Individual Social Capital

    • Mikael Rostila
    Pages 86-111

  7. Health Inequalities Between European Welfare Regimes: The Contribution of Collective Social Capital

    • Mikael Rostila
    Pages 112-132

  8. Social Capital and Health Inequality in the Social-Democratic Swedish Welfare State

    • Mikael Rostila
    Pages 133-160

  9. The Dark Sides of Social Capital: Homophily and Closure of Immigrants’ Social Networks in the Swedish Welfare State

    • Mikael Rostila
    Pages 161-183

  10. Concluding Discussion

    • Mikael Rostila
    Pages 184-201

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 202-234
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About this book

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.

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"To my knowledge, this is the first book to comprehensively examine the impact of welfare state regimes on social capital and how this relationship may impact on health and health inequalities ... I would highly recommend this book to academics and policymakers alike." - Social Policy and Administration

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  • Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

    Mikael Rostila

About the author

MIKAEL ROSTILA is an Associate Professor of Sociology and works as a Researcher at the Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University, Sweden.

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