Social Capital and Mental Health

Edited by Kwame McKenzie and Trudy Harpham
Foreword by Richard Wilkinson

Paperback: £27.99 / $49.95

2006, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-355-4, BIC 2: JFS JFF MMH

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Foreword, Richard Wilkinson. Part 1: Theory and methods. 1. Meaning and uses of social capital in the mental health field, Kwame McKenzie and Trudy Harpham. 2. Social risk, mental health and social capital, Kwame McKenzie. 3. Systematic review of the methods used in studies of social capital and mental health, Mary de Silva. Part 2: International studies. 4. Ethnographic investigation of social capital and mental health in Gospel Oak, London, UK, Rob Whitley. 5. Social capital and quality of life and mental health in Maastricht, the Netherlands: The neighbourhood matters, Marjan Drukker, Charles Kaplan and Jim van Os. 6. Social capital and mental health in the urban south, USA: A quantitative study, Carey Usher. 7. Social capital and mental health of women living in informal settlements in Durban, South Africa, and Lusaka, Zambia, Liz Thomas. 8. Social capital and youth mental health in Cali, Columbia, Trudy Harpham, Emma Grant and Simon Snoxell. Part 3: Conclusion. 9. The state of the art, Kwame McKenzie. Index.

Author information

• Kwame McKenzie
• Trudy Harpham

Subject areas

• Health, Social Work and Social Care
• Psychiatry and Psychology

Keywords

• health care,
• mental health,
• psychiatry,
• psychology,
• social policy,
• social work

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