Social capital and self-rated health among adolescents in Brazil: an exploratory study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social capital may influence health and the patterns of association differ according its dimension such as cognitive, behavioral, bridging or bonding. There is a few numbers of studies in Latin America which comprise these aspects of social capital and health. The aim of this study was to examine the association between social capital and self-rated health among youth, and distinguish between the different forms of social capital - cognitive versus behavioral, and bonding versus bridging.

Findings

A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2009 among working adolescents supported by a Brazilian NGO. The sample comprised 363 individuals and data were collected using a validated structured questionnaire. The outcome, self-rated health, was measured as a dichotomous va

SUBMITTER: Borges CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3014966 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature