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El impacto diferencial del capital social sobre la salud mental de la población autóctona y los inmigrantes residentes en Cataluña / Differential impact of social capital on mental health in the native-born and immigrant populations living in Catalonia (Spain)
Stoyanova, Alexandrina; Díaz-Serrano, Luis.
Affiliation
  • Stoyanova, Alexandrina; Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Teoria Económica. Barcelona. España
  • Díaz-Serrano, Luis; Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d´Economía. Barcelona. España
Gac. sanit. (Barc., Ed. impr.) ; 23(supl.1): 93-99, dic. 2009. tab
Article in Spanish | IBECS | ID: ibc-140906
Responsible library: ES1.1
Localization: BNCS
RESUMEN

Objetivos:

Este trabajo pretende crear un puente entre la literatura sobre la inmigración y la que relaciona el capital social y la salud. Nuestro primer objetivo es aportar nueva evidencia empírica sobre la asociación entre capital social y salud utilizando por primera vez datos de Cataluña. En segundo lugar, intentamos determinar la posible existencia de un efecto diferencial del capital social sobre la salud entre inmigrantes y nativos. También distinguimos entre capital social individual y capital social comunitario.

Métodos:

Para cumplir los objetivos descritos utilizamos la Encuesta de Salud de Cataluña de 2006 (ESCA 2006). La estimación de los modelos de salud se lleva a cabo utilizando la modelización multinivel. Se han estimado modelos separados tanto para nativos como para inmigrantes.

Resultados:

Los resultados revelan que existe una asociación positiva entre una buena salud mental en Cataluña y el capital social. No obstante, el impacto del capital social individual es mayor que el del comunitario. También observamos que no existe un efecto diferencial entre inmigrantes y nativos en Cataluña, mientras que tales diferencias sí se observan respecto a los nativos españoles nacidos fuera de Cataluña. También observamos la existencia de heterogeneidad geográfica en cuanto al efecto del capital social individual sobre la salud mental para ambos colectivos, nativos e inmigrantes.

Conclusiones:

A partir de nuestros resultados, creemos que potenciar la acumulación de capital social puede ser un instrumento potencialmente eficaz para conseguir los objetivos relacionados con la mejora de la salud (AU)
ABSTRACT

Objectives:

This study attempts to create a bridge between the literature on immigration and on social capital and health. The objectives were two-fold firstly, to provide new empirical evidence on the association between social capital and health, using data from Catalonia for the first time and, secondly, to explore the possible existence of a differential impact of social capital on health between native-born residents and immigrants. We also distinguished between individual and community-level social capital.

Methods:

We used the 2006 Catalan Health Survey (ESCA 2006). To assess the relationship between social capital and mental health, we used multilevel models, estimated separately for native-born and immigrant residents.

Results:

The results revealed a positive link between social capital and good mental health in Catalonia. However, this effect was stronger for individual than for community-level social capital. The results did not support the hypothesis of a differential impact between immigrants and native-born Catalans, but did indicate differences with respect to Spaniards born outside Catalonia. Geographic heterogeneity in the effect of individual social capital on mental health in both immigrants and native-born residents was also detected.

Conclusions:

We believe that enhancing social capital could potentially be an effective policy tool to achieve objectives related to health status improvement (AU)
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Collection: National databases / Spain Health context: Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas / SDG3 - Health and Well-Being Health problem: Goal 1 Equitable access to health services / Target 3.8 Achieve universal access to health Database: IBECS Main subject: Mental Health / Community Participation / Emigrants and Immigrants / Interpersonal Relations Type of study: Prognostic study / Qualitative research Aspects: Patient-preference Limits: Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Female / Humans / Male Country/Region as subject: Europa Language: Spanish Journal: Gac. sanit. (Barc., Ed. impr.) Year: 2009 Document type: Article Institution/Affiliation country: Universitat Rovira i Virgili/España / Universitat de Barcelona/España
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Collection: National databases / Spain Health context: Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas / SDG3 - Health and Well-Being Health problem: Goal 1 Equitable access to health services / Target 3.8 Achieve universal access to health Database: IBECS Main subject: Mental Health / Community Participation / Emigrants and Immigrants / Interpersonal Relations Type of study: Prognostic study / Qualitative research Aspects: Patient-preference Limits: Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Female / Humans / Male Country/Region as subject: Europa Language: Spanish Journal: Gac. sanit. (Barc., Ed. impr.) Year: 2009 Document type: Article Institution/Affiliation country: Universitat Rovira i Virgili/España / Universitat de Barcelona/España
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