Social Capital and Health Inequality in European Welfare States

1. Introduction
Mikael Rostila

2. Theoretical Foundations of Social Capital in Health Research
Mikael Rostila

3. Social Capital and Welfare: Do Universal Welfare States “Crowd Out” or Stimulate Social Capital?
Mikael Rostila

4. Social Capital and Health: Mechanisms and Empirical Findings
Mikael Rostila

5. Health Inequalities by Education in European Welfare Regimes: The Contribution of Individual Social Capital
Mikael Rostila

6. Health Inequalities Between European Welfare Regimes: The Contribution of Collective Social Capital
Mikael Rostila

7. Social Capital and Health Inequality in the Social-Democratic Swedish Welfare State
Mikael Rostila

8. The Dark Sides of Social Capital: Homophily and Closure of Immigrants’ Social Networks in the Swedish Welfare State
Mikael Rostila

9. Concluding Discussion
Mikael Rostila

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Political Sociology, Public Administration, Social Care, Political Science