social capital, as a contex for mental health promotion

Systematic Review of Social Health Promotion with Social Capital Approach

Introduction: Social health is one of the dimensions of health defined by the world health organization. Social capital components have close relations with social health. This study reviewed reported documents about social health and social capital components improving interventions.  Methods: A systematic review was conducted to identify social health and social capital improving intervention...

Mental Health and Social Capital: Social Capital as a Promising Initiative to Improving the Mental Health of Communities

Developing an Intervention Guidelines for Social Health Promotion Based on the Social Capital Theory

Introduction: Social capital can influence social health so it is essential to consider their interaction for health promotion. Guidelines for applying social capital theory in social health promotion programs will help practitioners to intervene step by step and make sure that all components of social capital theory will consider in health promotion programs. This article presents the results ...

Social capital and mental health.

Evidence for inequalities in morbidity and mortality by occupational social and mortality by occupational social class and material standard of living class and material standard of living has become irrefutable (Acheson, has become irrefutable (Acheson, 1998). Attention has now turned to 1998). Attention has now turned to the effects of social context (MacIntyre the effects of social context (...

Social capital and health – implications for health promotion

This article is a review of the PhD Thesis of Malin Eriksson, entitled 'Social capital, health and community action - implications for health promotion.' The article presents a theoretical overview of social capital and its relation to health, reviews empirical findings of the links between social capital and (self-rated) health, and discusses the usefulness of social capital in health promotio...

Social capital and post-disaster mental health

BACKGROUND Despite national and international policies to develop social capital in disaster-affected communities, empiric evidence on the association between social capital and disaster mental health is limited and ambiguous. OBJECTIVE The study explores the relationship between social capital and disaster mental health outcomes (PTSD, anxiety, and depression) in combination with individual ...