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Article: Do bonding, bridging, and linking social capital affect preventable hospitalizations?(Consumer Issues in Healthcare)(Report)
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- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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Community-level factors have been associated with access to health care, above and beyond covariates such as individual health status, insurance coverage, and sociodemographics. For example, previous research has found that neighborhood is related to whether individuals report a usual source of care, physician use, receiving preventive care, and having unmet need for care (Kirby and Kaneda 2005; Litaker, Koroukian, and Love 2005). Social capital has been suggested as a community-level characteristic and research exploring its link with health and health care has come "fast and furious" during the last decade (Veenstra 2002). The idea of social capital--defined generally ...