Abudho Bernard

TL;DR: Findings suggest that investment in building social capital may have some contextual benefits for collective action to address common environmental challenges and can inform policy interventions and practice in water and sanitation delivery in low and middle income countries, environmental health promotion and community development.

TL;DR: A systematic review of interventions in public health revealed a lack of studies that incorporate a multilevel perspective and an absence of consideration of specific groups that might selectively benefit from social capital interventions (segmentation).

TL;DR: It is found that households that are richer or better educated, that have certain demographic properties, or that improved their homes over this period were more likely to switch to using a latrine or toilet.

TL;DR: In this commentary, some of the achievements, substantive topics, and future trends in the research papers that have featured in the Social Epidemiology Section of the journal are spotlighted.

TL;DR: Findings reveal that access to water, perceptions and practices were shaped by ecological and broader structural factors, and collective actions to improve access were constrained by institutional and economic structures, thus reinforcing inequalities.

TL;DR: A new approach to studying trust in the context of health is presented and it is argued that consideration of the mechanisms through which social capital influences health highlights the central theoretical role of particularized trust (trust in known others).