The challenges of measuring social cohesion in public health research: A systematic review and ecometric meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: The relationship between social cohesion and health has been studied for decades. Yet, due to the contextual nature of this concept, measuring social cohesion remains challenging. Using a meta-analytical framework, this review's goal was to study the ecometric measurement properties of social cohesion in order to describe dissimilarities in its measurement as well as bring a new perspective on the empirical usefulness of the concept itself. To this end, we analysed if, and to what extent, contextual-level reliability and intersubjective agreement of 78 social cohesion measurements varied under different measurement conditions like measurement instrument, spatial unit, ecometric model specification, or region. We found consistent evidence for the contextual nature of social cohesion, howeve

SUBMITTER: Oberndorfer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8790679 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature