Do health behaviors mediate the association between social capital and health?
Preventive MedicinePublished 25 July 2006
Wouter Poortinga
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Social capital and support are important determinants of self-rated health and health behaviors and only limited support was found for the hypothesis that health behaviors mediate the association between social capital and health.
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The results demonstrate that social capital and support are important determinants of self-rated health and health behaviors. But only limited support was found for the hypothesis that health behaviors mediate the association between social capital and health.
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