Social Capital and COVID-19 Deaths: An Ecological Analysis in Japan.

ABSTRACT: Social contextual factors could determine mortality by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), with social capital as a potential determinant. This study aimed to examine the association between prefecture-level social capital and COVID-19 deaths in Japan. Data on the cumulative number of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 individuals between 1 October 2020 and 30 June 2021 in 47 prefectures were obtained from the government open-access database. Prefecture-level social capital was collected from a large-scale web-based nationwide survey conducted between August and September 2020. We included trust in neighbors, norm of reciprocity in the neighborhood, and trust in the national government as cognitive social capital, and neighborhood ties and social participation as structural social capital. T

SUBMITTER: Murayama H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8536097 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature