Questions of trust in health research on social capital: What aspects of personal network social capital do they measure?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 116, Issue , 2014, Pages 225-234

  Carpiano, Richard M ^a   Fitterer, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Measurement; Social capital; Social determinants of health; Social networks; Theory; Trust

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT METHOD; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL INDICATOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; THEORETICAL STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; SOCIAL THEORY; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCOME; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH; MINORITY HEALTH; NEIGHBORHOOD; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TRUST; URBAN AREA; ADOLESCENT; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FAMILY; FRIENDSHIP; GENERALIZED TRUST; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; TRUST OF NEIGHBOR;

CANADA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANADA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRUST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905032368     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.03.017     Document Type: Article

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