Social capital: A guide to its measurement

Health and Place

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 259-270

  Lochner, Kimberly ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a   Kennedy, Bruce P ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Community; Neighborhood; Social capital

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FORMATION; METHODOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

COMMUNITY; COMPETENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0032704493     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(99)00016-7     Document Type: Article

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