Capital social e saúde: associação entre proxys de capital social e a taxa de mortalidade por causas externas por agressão e por lesões autoprovocadas em municípios brasileiros com mais 100.000 habitantes

Abstract

The relationship between social capital and health has been studied for a long time. Civic participation is present in the laws of health, health promotion movements and other councils and conferences about health. This study intends to contribute to the discussion of the existence of an association between health and social capital. Associations were found between mortality from external causes - aggression and self-harm injuries - and active participation in associational life of citizens, expressions of interest in civil society organization and activity of the municipal councils in cities with more than 100,000 habitants. Method was applied in multiple regression assymmetric skew-normal model. Thus, some control variables were used: Gini coefficient, per capita income of the cities, municipal development Firjan index (IFDM) and the Gross National Product (PIB). The results show an association between mortality rates and variables that capture aspects of social capital. Mortality from aggression and self-harm mortality showed different patterns of association with variables related to social capital.