HTH 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Coronary Artery Disease, Social Capital, Group Cohesiveness
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Chapter 5: social support, social capital, social cohesion. Attachment: relying on someone or something, being tied to something. Regulation: the extent to which you are governed by your beliefs, values, behaviors. Roseto, pa case study: male residents of an italian immigrant community in the eastern u. s were found to have unusually low incidence of coronary heart disease. There was a strong social support within the community protective effect. They did not believe in embarrassing one another. Social networks: size, density, influence the information, resources, and access to opportunities available to them, affects behavior. Physically helping us eat or dress: about the number of contacts and the frequency of those contacts, behaviors and outcomes travel through networks. Social engagement: in unequal societies, extra group hostility is likely to intensify, even become violent. Well-adjusted person, build positive relationships better health: confounded relationship. Well adjusted, independently gives rise to better health and positive relationships: independent relationship.
