Habibov Nazim, Cheung Alex
Social Work, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Int J Health Plann Manage. 2018 Jan;33(1):225-234. doi: 10.1002/hpm.2427. Epub 2017 Jun 19.
We analyse the effect of contextual-level social capital on health status in a sample of 26 transitional countries of Central and South Europe, Mongolia, and the former Soviet Union for 2006-2010 (N = 51 911). Contextual-level social capital is conceptualized as country-level social trust, while health status is conceptualized as self-rated health. We use ordinary least squares and instrumental variable regressions to address endogeneity and especially to rule out reverse causality. Both instrumental variable and ordinary least squares regressions suggest a strong positive effect of country-level trust on health. This finding is consistent for the whole sample as well as separate regional estimations.
我们分析了2006年至2010年期间中欧和南欧、蒙古以及前苏联的26个转型国家样本中情境层面的社会资本对健康状况的影响（N = 51911）。情境层面的社会资本被概念化为国家层面的社会信任，而健康状况被概念化为自评健康。我们使用普通最小二乘法和工具变量回归来处理内生性问题，特别是排除反向因果关系。工具变量回归和普通最小二乘法回归均表明，国家层面的信任对健康有强烈的积极影响。这一发现对于整个样本以及单独的区域估计都是一致的。
