ArticleHealth economics review2026
Pay attention to your social capital! It determines your health: an analysis for the elderly in Europe.
Article in Health economics review, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThe concept of social capital and its association with health has gained relevance in the last decades. Different proposals for its measurement and classification have been established, making the use of a wide range of variables essential for its proper coverage. In this sense, we aim at measuring two dimensions of social capital, bonding and bridging social capital, for the elder European population and how they both relate with self-assessed health. Recent evidence for this population group is missing.
methodsWe used the 2011, 2015, and 2019 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to obtain a proper range of variables assessing social capital. Fixed-effects logistic regressions were performed, regressing self-assessed health on social capital variables. We also included lagged values of social capital in our estimations to test temporal dynamics in the relationship between social capital and health, and conducted heterogenous analysis by gender and marital status.
resultsHigh levels of bridging social capital reduced the odds of declaring a poor health status, even after controlling for socioeconomic characteristics, objective health variables, and year dummies (OR: 0.878 95%CI: 0.82-0.941). Our heterogenous analyses revealed that being satisfied with social networks is correlated with lower odds of reporting poor health among single older adults and females. Additionally, we observed that high values of bridging capital in 2015 were correlated with lower odds of assessing a poor health status in 2019 (OR: 0.928; 95%CI: 0.872-0.987), as were having a larger number of family members in the social network (OR: 0.939; 95%CI: 0.895-0.985) and being satisfied with bridging social capital activities in 2015 (OR: 0.899; 95%CI: 0.851-0.948).
conclusionsOur results highlight the important role of participating in social activities on European older adults' health across time. Thus, policies aimed at promoting these activities not only might reduce unwanted loneliness among older adults, but also improve their health across time.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.