Lost in translation: a genealogy of the “social capital” concept in public health

摘要: Study objective: To examine the genealogy of social capital concept in public health, with attention to epistemological concerns and academic practices that shaped way which this was translated into health. Design: A citation-network path analysis health literature on used generate a The identifies intellectual sources, influential texts, developments conceptualisation Participants: population 227 texts (articles, books, reports) selected two phases. Phase 1 were articles PubMed database “social capital” their title published before 2003 (n = 65). 2 are those cited more than once by phase (n = 165). Main results: shows how scholarship Robert Putnam has been absorbed research, three seminal appearing 1996 1997 helped shape communitarian form assumed both influenced context epidemiology at time. Conclusions: Originally viewed research as an ecological level, psychosocial mechanism might mediate income inequality-health pathway, dominance approach given disproportionate normative associational properties places. Network approaches lost translation. Recovering them is key full translation