Social Capital and Health Social Capital and Health Edited by Ichiro Kawachi Harvard University Boston, Massachusetts, USA S.V. Subramanian Harvard University Boston, Massachusetts, USA Daniel Kim Harvard University Boston, Massachusetts, USA Ichiro Kawachi S.V. Subramanian Department of Society, Human Department of Society, Human Development and Health Developmnt, and Health Harvard School of Public Health Harvard School of Public Health Kresge Buliding, 7thFloor Kresge Buliding, 7thFloor 677 Huntington Avenue 677 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 Boston, MA 02115 USA USA Daniel Kim Department of Society, Human Development, and Health Harvard School of Public Health Kresge Buliding, 7thFloor 677 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007929723 ISBN 978-0-387-71310-6 ISBN 978-0-387-71311-3 Printed on acid-free paper. ©2008 Springer Science(cid:2)Business Media, LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science(cid:2)Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com Acknowledgments Professor Trudy Harpham (chapter 3) would like to thank her mother, Constance Harpham, for enabling so many good things in life to happen. The authors of chapter 2 (Cynthia Lakon, Dionne Godette and John Hipp) acknowledge the support provided in part by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) grant number DA16094 administered through the Transdisciplinary Drug Abuse Prevention Research Center (TPRC) at the University of Southern California. The chapter was also supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Scholars in Health Disparities Program at the Harvard School of Public Health and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grant number P60AA013759–02s2 administered through the Boston University Youth Alcohol Prevention Center. Finally, the authors would also like to express their gratitude to Dr. Tom Valente. Richard Carpiano authored chapter 5 while he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Some of the empirical findings detailed within are drawn from a study supported through a pilot grant from the University of Wisconsin Health & Society Scholars Program. Quantitative findings are based on data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, which is funded by a grant R01 HD35944 from the United States National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to RAND in Santa Monica, California. He also wishes to thank Stephanie Robert for helpful comments, as well as many colleagues who have helped to facilitate the theoretical and empirical studies detailed here. The research described in chapter 7 (the economic approach to studying cooper- ation and trust) was funded by the National Science Foundation (SES-0094800) and the Schroeder Center for Health Care Policy at the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. Lisa Anderson and Jennifer Mellor would like to thank Jeff Milyo for valuable comments on their work. Astier Almedom (chapter 9) was supported by the Henry R. Luce Program in Science and Humanitarianism at Tufts University. Kathleen Cagney and Ming Wen (chapter 11) would like to thank their colleague, Dr. Christopher Browning (Ohio State University). Ming Wen thanks her mother, Hua Wen, for her support. v vi Acknowledgments Vish Viswanath (chapter 12) would like to acknowledge the assistance of Shoba Ramanadhan on his chapter. Ichiro Kawachi acknowledges the generous support of the MacArthur Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health, and the always helpful advice of his colleagues in the Network: Nancy Adler, Teresa Seeman, Bruce McEwen, Sheldon Cohen, Mark Cullen, Ana Diez Roux, David Williams, Karen Matthews, Michael Marmot, and Judith Stewart. S V Subramanian would like to acknowledge the support of the National Institutes of Health via a Career Development Award (NHLBI 1 K25 HL081275). He also thanks his wife, Nithya, and two children, Maya and Swara, and his mother. He dedicates this effort of his to his father. Daniel Kim wishes to thank his parents, Sung Gyum Kim and Hae Ja Kim, for their enduring support. Contents Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Chapter 1. Social Capital and Health: A Decade of Progress and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian, and Daniel Kim PART I MEASUREMENT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL Chapter 2. Measurement of Individual Social Capital: Questions, Instruments, and Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Martin van der Gaag and Martin Webber Chapter 3. The Measurement of Community Social Capital Through Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Trudy Harpham Chapter 4. Network-Based Approaches for Measuring Social Capital . . . 63 Cynthia M. Lakon, Dionne C. Godette, and John R. Hipp Chapter 5. Actual or Potential Neighborhood Resources for Health: What Can Bourdieu offer for Understanding Mechanisms Linking Social Capital to Health? . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Richard M. Carpiano Chapter 6. Social Capital and Public Health: Qualitative and Ethnographic Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Rob Whitley Chapter 7. The Economic Approach to Cooperation and Trust: Lessons for the Study of Social Capital and Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Lisa R. Anderson and Jennifer M. Mellor PART II EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE Chapter 8. Social Capital and Physical Health: A Systematic Review of the Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Daniel Kim, S.V. Subramanian, and Ichiro Kawachi vii viii Contents Chapter 9. Social Capital and Mental Health: An Updated Interdisciplinary Review of Primary Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Astier M. Almedom and Douglas Glandon Chapter 10. Social Capital and Health-Related Behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Martin Lindström Chapter 11. Social Capital and Aging-Related Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Kathleen A. Cagney and Ming Wen Chapter 12. Social Capital and Health Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 K. Viswanath Chapter 13. Disaster Preparedness and Social Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Howard K. Koh and Rebecca O. Cadigan Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 List of Contributors Astier M. Almedom, PhD, Tufts University, Boston, MA. Lisa R. Anderson. PhD, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. Rebecca O. Cadigan, MS, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Kathleen A. Cagney, PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Douglas Glandon, PhD, Tufts University, Boston, MA. Dionne C. Godette, PhD, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Trudy Harpham, PhD, London South Bank University, London, U.K. John R. Hipp, MS, PhD, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA. Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Daniel Kim, MD, MPH, MSc, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH, FACP, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Cynthia M. Lakon, PhD, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Alhambra, CA. Martin Lindström, PhD, Malmö University Hospital/Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. Jennifer M. Mellor, PhD, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. S.V. Subramanian, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Martin Van Der Gaag, PhD, Department of Public Administration and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands K. Viswanath, PhD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard School ofPublic Health, Boston, MA. ix