eprintid: 10127148
rev_number: 14
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datestamp: 2021-05-06 13:08:13
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type: article
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creators_name: Borgonovi, F
creators_name: Andrieau, E
creators_name: Subramanian, SV
title: The Evolution of the Association between Community Level Social Capital and Covid-19 Deaths and Hospitalizations in the United States
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divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J81
keywords: COVID-19; Social capital; Deaths; Social determinants of health; United States
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abstract: We use county level data from the United States to document the role of social capital the evolution of COVID-19 between January 2020 and January 2021. We find that social capital differentials in COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations depend on the dimension of social capital and the timeframe considered. Communities with higher levels of relational and cognitive social capital were especially successful in lowering COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations than communities with lower social capital between late March and early April. A difference of one standard deviation in relational social capital corresponded to a reduction of 30% in the number of COVID-19 deaths recorded. After April 2020, differentials in COVID-19 deaths related to relational social capital persisted although they became progressively less pronounced. By contrast, the period of March–April 2020, our estimates suggest that there was no statistically significant difference in the number of deaths recorded in areas with different levels of cognitive social capital. In fact, from late June-early July onwards the number of new deaths recorded as being due to COVID-19 was higher in communities with higher levels of cognitive social capital. The overall number of deaths recorded between January 2020 and January 2021 was lower in communities with higher levels of relational social capital. Our findings suggest that the association between social capital and public health outcomes can vary greatly over time and across indicators of social capital.
date: 2021-06-01
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier BV
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113948
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
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elements_id: 1860673
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113948
lyricists_name: Borgonovi, Francesca
lyricists_id: FBORG54
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Social Science & Medicine
volume: 278
article_number: 113948
citation:        Borgonovi, F;    Andrieau, E;    Subramanian, SV;      (2021)    The Evolution of the Association between Community Level Social Capital and Covid-19 Deaths and Hospitalizations in the United States.                   Social Science & Medicine , 278     , Article 113948.  10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113948 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113948>.       Green open access   
 
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