This paper carries out an exploratory investigation into the effect of various types of social interaction on health in … that the frequency of meetings with friends is significantly and positively associated with self-perceived health. The … and weakly negative predictor of good health. Other relevant explanatory variables are education and work status. …

We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset … modelling, we find that happiness is strongly correlated with perceived good health, after controlling for a number of relevant … socio-economic phenomena. Health inequalities based on income, work status and education are relatively contained in respect …

-perceived health. …

-perceived health. …

subnational levels can impact the health and health behavior risks of individuals. This paper examines the impact of state …-level social capital and ideology on individual-level health outcomes in the U.S. Leveraging the variation that exists across … states in the U.S., the results reveal that individuals report better health in states with higher levels of governmental …

significant health and development challenges to individuals and communities, especially in low and middle income countries … sanitation delivery in low and middle income countries, environmental health promotion and community development. …

, social interaction has been argued to be conducive to better outcomes for those with health problems; and there is an …

. Social capital has been associated with many aspects of improvements in health, environment and development. This paper … assesses the theoretical support for a social capital based analysis of environment and health issues with a focus on the water-health …, adequate sanitation and hygiene and the resulting health impacts. Further, we develop a conceptual framework for linking social …

The public health literature on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of social … connections is positively correlated with individual health. Drawing on pooled cross-sectional data, we test this hypothesis on a … self-reported health. The frequency of meetings with friends is significantly and positively correlated with good health in …

between the effects of different components of SC on health. This study examined the relationship between contextual SC and … health (self-rated health, and co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors such as smoking, drinking, overweight/underweight and … which components of contextual SC had what effects on health. In 2009, we randomly selected 4123 residents, aged 20 years …