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Social Capital as a Positive Social Determinant of Health: A Narrative Review.
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- Social Capital in the Newborn Period and Household Food Insecurity at Child Age Two Years.Academic pediatrics · 2026Article
- The mediating role of health-related behaviors between social capital and primary healthcare physicians' health-related quality of life.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Associations of maternal uncertainty stress and social capital with adolescents' smartphone use behavior: a cross-sectional study from rural China.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Community-level social capital and postoperative outcomes following intracranial tumor surgery: an exploration of the Social Capital Atlas in neurosurgical oncology.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2025Article
- Strengthening equity in gardening initiatives for children and youth: a rapid review.BMC public health · 2025Review
- Assessing social support networks in cancer survivors and their care partners: concordance between expected and received support.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025Article
- The impact of a personal cancer diagnosis on adolescent and young adult cancer survivors' social connectedness: A qualitative analysis.Journal of health psychology · 2025Article
- The relationships between resilience and child health behaviors in a national dataset.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Social capital, functional health status and quality of life among adults in rural Southwest Nigeria.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Individual Work Attitudes and Work Ability.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Relationships between individual attitudes and occupational stress. A cross-sectional study.AIMS public health · 2025Article
- Good Friends and Good Neighbors: Social Capital and Food Insecurity in Families with Newborns.The Journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Association of Social Capital With Tuberculosis: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Analytical Study in South India.Cureus · 2023Article
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- Social Capital and Sleep Outcomes Across Childhood in United States Families.Academic pediatrics · 2023Article
- Supporting early childhood routines to promote cardiovascular health across the life course.Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care · 2023Article
- Emergent Social Capital during the Coronavirus Pandemic in the United States in Hispanics/Latinos.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Social capital, depressive symptomatology, and frailty among older adults in the western areas of China.PloS one · 2023Article
- Children orphaned from COVID-19 in Thailand: maximize use of civil registration database for policies.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Social capital and loneliness among older adults in community dwellings and nursing homes in Zhejiang Province of China.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Social determinants of health influence child health behavior, development, and outcomes. This paper frames social capital, or the benefits that a child receives from social relationships, as a positive social determinant of health that helps children exposed to adversity achieve healthy outcomes across the life course. Children are uniquely dependent on their relationships with surrounding adults for material and nonmaterial resources. We identify and define three relevant aspects of social capital: 1) social support, which is embedded in a 2) social network, which is a structure through which 3) social cohesion can be observed. Social support is direct assistance available through social relationships and can be received indirectly through a caregiver or directly by a child. A child's social network describes the people in a child's life and the relationships between them. Social cohesion represents the strength of a group to which a child belongs (eg, family, community). Pediatric primary care practices play an important role in fostering social relationships between families, the health care system, and the community. Further research is needed to develop definitional and measurement rigor for social capital, to evaluate interventions (eg, peer health educators) that may improve health outcomes through social capital, and to broaden our understanding of how social relationships influence health outcomes.
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