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Disaster, Social Capital, and Health

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This chapter explains the important role that social capital plays in disaster impact reduction and resilience following disaster. First, we introduce the conceptual background for disaster research and the potential contribution of social capital in affecting population health outcomes during each disaster phase. In the second section we review empirical studies of disaster and the role of social capital in community recovery and resilience. The concluding section discusses future directions for research on social capital and health in disaster settings.

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  1. Department of International and Community Oral Health, Graduate School of Dentistry, Tohoku University, 4-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan

    Jun Aida D.D.S., M.P.H., Ph.D.

  2. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Huntington Avenue 677, Kresge Bldg., 7th floor, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Ichiro Kawachi M.D., Ph.D. & S. V. Subramanian Ph.D.

  3. Center for Well-being and Society, Nihon Fukushi University, 5-22-35 Chiyoda, Naka-ku, Nagoya, 460-0012, Japan

    Katsunori Kondo M.D., Ph.D.

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Aida, J., Kawachi, I., Subramanian, S.V., Kondo, K. (2013). Disaster, Social Capital, and Health. In: Kawachi, I., Takao, S., Subramanian, S. (eds) Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7464-7_7

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