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The Group Effect - Social Cohesion and Health Outcomes (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
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The Group Effect - Social Cohesion and Health Outcomes (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
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Sociologists and anthropologists have had a long interest in
studying the ways in which cultures shaped different patterns of
health, disease, and mortality. Social scientists have documented
low rates of chronic disease and disability in non-Western
societies and have suggested that social stability, cultural
homogeneity and social cohesion may play a part in explaining these
low rates. On the other hand, in studies of Western societies,
social scientists have found that disease and mortality assume
different patterns among various ethnic, cultural and
social-economic groups. The role of stress, social change and a low
degree of cohesion have been suggested, along with other factors as
contributing to the variable rates among different social groups.
Social cohesion has been implicated in the cause and recovery from
both physical and psychological illnesses. Although there has been
a large amount of work established the beneficial effects of
cohesion on health and well-being, relatively little work has
focused on HOW increased social cohesion sustains or improves
health. This work is based on the premise that there are risk
factors, including social cohesion that regulate health and disease
in groups. One of the challenges is how to measure social cohesion
- it can be readily observed and experienced but difficult to
quantify. A better understanding of how social cohesion works will
be valuable to improving group-level interventions.
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