Social Cohesion, Social Capital, and Health
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- 9 March 2000
- book chapter
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)
Abstract
An important task for the emerging field of social epidemiology is to identify the collective characteristics of communities and societies that determine population health status. Ever since Durkheim, social scientists have recognized that society is not simply the sum of individuals—that the factors which determine population well-being cannot be reduced to individual risk factors.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: