The paper assesses the causal relationship between formal volunteering and individual health. The econometric analysis … relationship between formal volunteering and self-perceived health. …

between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the …

Social capital is a neglected determinant of health in low and middle income countries. To date, majority of evidence … syntheses on social capital and health are based upon high income countries. We conducted this systematic review to identify the … relation to health in the study, from 1980 to January 2013. We extracted data using a data extraction form and performed …

We test the causal role of social capital, as measured by self-reported trust, in determining access to basic health … facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa. To skirt reverse-causality problems between social capital and basic health, we rely on … robustness check, we also use a different database regarding a different health issue, namely access to clean water. We find that …

findings also show that meetings with friends increase job satisfaction through self-perceived health, suggesting a “buffering …