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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
5075.0: Wednesday, November 13, 2002: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| The concept of “social capital” has a huge potential as a tool for public health efforts to improve health status and quality of life. Social capital has been defined as “the features of social organization, such as civic participation, norms of reciprocity, and trust in others, that facilitate cooperation for mutual benefit.” Social capital is the community-level resource and characteristic that translates into social networks, trust and positive relationships on an individual level. Social capital exists on and impacts individual, organizational and community levels. The effects of social capital on the health and quality of life of individuals, organizations and communities is being researched and efforts are underway to learn mthods to create social capital for improved health. This session will provide a comprehensive examination of social capital from the research literature to concrete examples of community programs to create social capital. Attendees of this session will: (1) be presented with a compilation and synthesis of the literature that provides evidence that social capital is a determinant of health, (2) hear about the largest survey on the civic engagement of Americans, (3) consider a local community foundation’s efforts to build social capital in their communties, (4) learn about work to build social capital in the workplace, and (5) hear about a city-wide program that “creates community” through an exciting mural arts program. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Define social capital and discuss its meaning and manifestations; 2. Summarize the research that evidences the impact of social capital on individual and community health and quality of life; 3. Articulate the importance of social capital in the work place; 4. Identify indicators of social capital and characteristics of communities and work places with high social capital; and 5. Describe various methods and means of creating social capital in communities (in both urban and rural areas). | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Robin Wilcox, MPA Carolyn Steinhauser Tyler Norris Jane Golden | |||
| Robert O. Valdez, PhD, Dean | |||
| How social capital creates healthier communities; Robin Wilcox | |||
| Measuring and building social capital in a community; Carolyn Steinhauser | |||
| Using social capital to build the workplace as community, Tyler Norris | |||
| Building communities through mural arts, Jane Golden | |||
| Questions and Answers; Robert O. Valdez | |||
| Organized by: | APHA-Special Sessions | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Chiropractic, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | ||