Authors:

  • S V Subramanian
  • Ichiro Kawachi

Excerpt

The ‘dark side’ of social capital: trust and self-rated health in European countries. S.V. Subramanian, Ichiro Kawachi, May 27, 2015, Paper. "Generalized interpersonal trust (as an indicator of social capital) has been linked to health status at both the individual and ecological level. We sought to examine how changes in contextual and individual trust are associated with changes in self-rated health in the European Social Surveys 2002–12. Methods: A multilevel analysis using a variance components model was performed on 203 452 individuals nested within 145 country cohorts covering 35 countries. Conditional on..." Link