This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

interaction on health in Italy. After controlling for household income, education, work status and a number of socio …-perceived health. The frequency of visits with relatives has a significant, but weaker effect. Membership in voluntary organizations is … a significant and weakly negative predictor of good health. Other relevant explanatory variables are education and work …

Using a rich cross-sectional dataset, we estimate the effect of meetings with friends on self-perceived health, chronic … correlated with self-perceived health, negatively associated with chronic conditions but not related to limitations in activities …

The paper investigates whether social relations are associated with the health of workers after controlling for … Heckman selection model is estimated from the worker sample, employing both self-reported and objective health measures using …-SILC). Results show that social relations at the individual level are positively correlated with self-perceived health, negatively …

by the children remained the same. In some of the African and Asian countries children are exposed to vulnerable … problems of children in many developing countries. An attempt is also made to highlight what may be termed as tentative … children issues and lessons emerging from Africa and India. …

school of Errabelly village of Karimnager district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The study revealed that children dropped out of …

children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication …