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Social capital and the third way in public health

Carles Muntaner Department of Behavioural and Community Health, School of Nursing, and Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore
,
John Lynch The Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
&
George Davey Smith Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol
Pages 107-124 | Published online: 01 Jul 2010

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