Promoting health equity through social capital in deprived communities: a natural policy experiment in Trieste, Italy.

ABSTRACT: The Trieste Habitat Micro-area Programme (HMP), an innovative social-health service policy, has offered a natural experiment to empirically evaluate the social mechanisms through which social capital may have an impact on health inequalities. To date, literature clarifying this causal chain is scanty. This empirical study tested the following hypotheses: H1) innovative social-health practices can activate social mechanisms intentionally and systematically so as to generate social capital; H2) such social mechanisms increase specific properties of social capital, in particular those influencing more vulnerable individuals' relationships; H3) investing in these properties can enhance capabilities and, consequently, control over the health of more vulnerable individuals. The study was carried

SUBMITTER: Di Monaco R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7585153 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature