Social capital, life expectancy and mortality: a cross-national examination
Social capital, life expectancy and mortality: a cross-national examination
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DOI：
10.1016/s0277-9536(02)00241-1
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发表时间：
2003-06-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Garvey, E
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作者：
Kennelly, B;O'Shea, E;Garvey, E
本文分析了社会资本与人口健康的关系。这项分析是在经济合作与发展组织19个国家的人口健康计量经济模型中进行的，使用了涵盖三个不同时期的面板数据。社会资本的衡量标准是说他们通常信任他人的人的比例，以及自愿协会的成员人数。该模型在解释健康结果方面表现良好。我们发现很少有统计上显著的证据表明社会资本的标准指标对人口健康有积极影响。相比之下，人均收入和政府资助的卫生支出比例与更好的健康结果显著正相关。本文对社会资本对健康有积极影响这一被广泛接受的假设提出了质疑，并说明了在扩展模型中检验这一假设的重要性。(C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd.版权所有。
This paper analyses the relationship between social capital and population health. The analysis is carried out within an econometric model of population health in 19 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries using panel data covering three different time periods. Social capital is measured by the proportion of people who say that that they generally trust other people and by membership in voluntary associations. The model performs well in explaining health outcomes. We find very little statistically significant evidence that the standard indicators of social capital have a positive effect on population health. By contrast, per capita income and the proportion of health expenditure financed by the government are both significantly and positively associated with better health outcomes. The paper casts doubt upon the widely accepted hypothesis that social capital has a positive effect on health and illustrates the importance of testing this kind of hypothesis in an extended model. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.