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HEALTH & PLACE
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 946-953Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.04.004
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Social capital; Health; Trust; Household context; Multilevel ecometric analysis
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- Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet) [K2008-70 x 01-3]
- Swedish Research Council Linnaeus Centre for Economic Demography [VR 79]
- Skanes University Hospital
- Strategic Research Network 'Epidemiology for Health', EpiHealth, at Lund and Uppsala Universities, Sweden
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Debate still surrounds which level of analysis (individual vs. contextual) is most appropriate to investigate the effects of social capital on health. Applying multilevel ecometric analyses to British Household Panel Survey data, we estimated fixed and random effects between five individual-, household- and small area-level social capital indicators and general health. We further compared the variance in health attributable to each level using intraclass correlations. Our results demonstrate that association between social capital and health depends on indicator type and level investigated, with one quarter of total individual-level health variance found at the household level. However, individual-level social capital variables and other health determinants appear to influence contextual-level variance the most. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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