Hi,
 
1. The latest (September, 2006) issue of Health Canada's Health Policy Research Bulletin is devoted to the theme of Social Capital and Health. I quote from the cover page:
 
"Drawing on research on the social determinants of health and on Health Canada's initial work on social capital and health, the Public Health Agency of Canada joined forces with the Population Health Institute at the University of Ottawa in 2004 to provide the first national-level analysis of the relationship between social capital and the health of Canadians. In presenting their work, this issue of the Health Policy Research Bulletin:

*	traces the evolution of research on the correlation between social relations and health and discusses the impacts of the social capital concept 
*	hightlights different approaches for defining social capital, including the "network" approach that gained consensus among federal departments, and presents an analytical model for measuring the relationship between social capital and health 
*	describes how this model was used to analyze the 2003 General Social Survey (GSS) on Social Engagement and presents the results for the Canadian population as a whole and for selected subpopulations 
*	examines key policy and program areas where social capital is already playing a role and explores the impacts of recent research"

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2. You must already be aware of the work that the Policy Research Initiative has done on social capital, not necessarily in the context of health. Here's the link:

http://policyresearch.gc.ca/page.asp?pagenm=rp_sc_final2
 
I'm very new to this listserv as well as to the concept of social capital. I just received a copy of the HPRB and so haven't read it yet. I look forward to listening in on this discussion and learning more about this subject (as well as others). 
 
Subha Sankaran
Health Promotion Consultant
Health Promotion Research Centre
Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
Toronto ON M5G 1Z8
Tel: 416-408-2249 ext. 2245
Fax: 416-408-2122
www.opc.on.ca
 

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	Subject: Re: [SDOH] Income or Social Capital as Social Determinants of Health
	
	

	See special issue of the IJE for a good overview. 

	http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol33/issue4/index.dtl 

	Social Capital Debate: 

	Simon Szreter and Michael Woolcock Health by association? Social capital, 
	social theory, and the political economy of public health IJE Advance 
	Access published on July 28, 2004 Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 650-667 

	Robert D Putnam 
	Commentary: 'Health by association': some comments 
	IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004 
	Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 667-671 

	Vicente Navarro 
	Commentary: Is capital the solution or the problem? 
	IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004 
	Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 672-674 

	Carles Muntaner Commentary: Social capital, social class, and the slow 
	progress of psychosocial epidemiology IJE Advance Access published on July 
	28, 2004 Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 674-680 

	Anne Ellaway Commentary: Can subtle refinements of popular concepts be put 
	into practice? IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004 Int. J. 
	Epidemiol. 33: 681-682 

	Ichiro Kawachi, Daniel Kim, Adam Coutts, and SV Subramanian 
	Commentary: Reconciling the three accounts of social capital 
	IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004 
	Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 682-690 


	George Davey Smith and John Lynch 
	Commentary: Social capital, social epidemiology and disease aetiology 
	IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2004 
	Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 691-700 

	Simon Szreter and Michael Woolcock Rejoinder: Crafting rigorous and 
	relevant social theory for public health policy IJE Advance Access 
	published on July 28, 2004 Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 700-704 

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