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Social capital, collective action and access to water in rural Kenya.
Elijah Bisung,Susan J. Elliott,Corinne J. Schuster-Wallace,Diana M. S. Karanja,Abudho Bernard +4 more
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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.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2014-10-01. It has received 99 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Open defecation & Sanitation.read more
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Social capital interventions in public health: A systematic review
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).
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Switching to sanitation: Understanding latrine adoption in a representative panel of rural Indian households.
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.
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Social epidemiology for the 21st century
Ichiro Kawachi,S. V. Subramanian +1 more
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.
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Dreaming of toilets: using photovoice to explore knowledge, attitudes and practices around water-health linkages in rural Kenya.
Elijah Bisung,Elijah Bisung,Susan J. Elliott,Bernard Abudho,Corinne J. Schuster-Wallace,Diana M. S. Karanja +5 more
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.
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Social capital and self-rated health: Clarifying the role of trust.
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).
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The Tragedy of the Commons
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Forms of Capital
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The Forms of Capital
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define cultural capital as accumulated labor that, when appropriated on a private, that is, exclusive, basis by agents or groups of agents, enables them to appropriate social energy in the form of reified or living labor.
The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life
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