Indicators of Social Capital for Racial and Ethnic Communities

Tulane University: Prevention Research Center (Lead Center)

University of Illinois at Chicago: Illinois Prevention Research Center

Saint Louis University: Prevention Research Center

University of New Mexico: Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Topics:
Community Health

Researchers at Tulane’s Prevention Research Center are coordinating a multi-site effort to identify indicators of community capacity and social capital—a community’s ability to enhance the well-being of its residents—among racial and ethnic neighborhoods. Researchers at each of the four centers are identifying and testing the indicators with different population groups. Illinois researchers are studying urban ethnic groups; Saint Louis researchers are working with rural, African American communities. Researchers from New Mexico’s center are working with American Indian tribal communities, and researchers at Tulane, in partnership with Xavier University, are studying inner-city African American communities. Together, the four centers will develop a large-scale survey that community agencies and state health departments can use to measure a community’s capacity and social capital for improving its residents’ health.

 

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