Social Capital and Its Effects on Health: Implications for Policy Makers.

نویسندگان

  • Reza Dehnavieh
  • Saeed Amini
چکیده

Social capital includes volume and quality of relations between human beings, which can facilitate cooperation between them. Based on numerous studies about development in the different world countries from 1988, it has been specified that social capital has an important role on development and progress of societies (1). For better understanding of social capital and its effects on society health, we start our discussion with a question: Why two societies that each of them have same demographic and economic situation, one of them has healthier population than other? Studies in different countries with same financial capital show that a progressive health care system can decrease all causes of death, improve health situation and save the costs (2-4). By coordinating and integrating different sections of health system (inter and between-sectoral), efforts for society health improvement bring better and more results and in this way a comprehensive model create for health care. Synergistic effect of cooperation between different parts can develop social capital and decrease inequity. Otherwise, for example, lack of health facilities in small cities and rural areas can increase immigration and marginalization in the big cities and endanger society health (2). Because of great gap in the health, education, workforce and people participation, inequity has expanded in the world (5). Two main measures to confront inequity are improving access to health care services in the poor regions and development of social solidarity. The results of different studies show that whatsoever the gap between poor and rich increases, citizens' health worsen (6). This gap is because of individuals' unequal access to skills not their income (7). Administration of health programs in the schools, offices, public places and so on can decrease the gap in the access to health services between poor and rich. Through development in the social and human capital, managers can deal with health challenges properly (8). Different definitions have been published for welfare but the important issue is that welfare is not only having economic capital but includes 3 other forms of capital: Social capital, natural capital and human capital. To build a healthy society, it is necessary to consider all capital levels namely social , natural, human and economic capital.-Social capital is like glue that consolidate the societies formal and informal. Citizens have equitable access to infrastructure resources for a better health.-Natural capital means having a high quality nature, healthy ecosystem, resources

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Iranian journal of public health

دوره 44 11  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015