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Developing and Using Social Capital In Public Mental Health

Paul Falzer (Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine Clinical Epidemiology Research Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System)

Mental Health Review Journal

ISSN: 1361-9322

Article publication date: 1 October 2007

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Abstract

Social capital has played a prominent role in recent initiatives to improve mental health and enhance the quality of services. However, efforts to substantiate a link between social capital and mental health have been daunted by equivocal findings and conceptual confusion. These consequences are in part due to having two prominent approaches that offer disparate and inconsistent accounts about what comprises social capital, how to increase it and how to use it to benefit mental health policy and practice. This paper lays the groundwork for a rapprochement.

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Falzer, P. (2007), "Developing and Using Social Capital In Public Mental Health", Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 34-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/13619322200700029

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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