Hello Shahzad

I don't know if this is relevant to your needs:

Kamphuis, C. B., Jansen, T., Mackenbach, J. P., & van Lenthe, F. J. (2015). Bourdieu’s Cultural Capital in Relation to Food Choices: A Systematic Review of Cultural Capital Indicators and an Empirical Proof of Concept. PloS one, 10(8), e0130695.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlijn_Kamphuis/publication/280871710_Bourdieus_Cultural_Capital_in_Relation_to_Food_Choices_A_Systematic_Review_of_Cultural_Capital_Indicators_and_an_Empirical_Proof_of_Concept/links/55cb522408aeb975674c675a.pdf

Very best wishes

Mary

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Hi Shahzad,

According to my point of view, one of the most interesting author who discuss this notion/concept is the french sociologist Didier Fassin, who has work on health sociology.

You ca, for example, read  his article or his book :

FASSIN, Didier (2003). Le capital social, de la sociologie à l’épidémiologie

Analyse critique d’une migration transdisciplinaire", Revue d’épidémiologie et de santé publique, n° 51,  pp. 403-413

Fassin D. (1996). L’espace politique de la santé. Essai de généalogie. Paris

: Presses universitaires de France.

Both mobilized useful english writen bibliographies

Also, you could read, in english :

- Williams S. (1995) Theorizing class, health and lifestyles: can Bourdieu

help us? Sociol Health Illness, n°17: pp. 577-604.

- Berkman L.(1987) Assessing social networks and social support in epidemiologic studies, Revue Epidemiologique de Santé Publique,  n° 35: pp. 46-53

- Hawe P, Shiell A. (2000), Social capital and health promotion: a review.

Soc Sci Med,  n°51: pp. 871-885.

All the best,

Christophe

thank you Wilson,

I am also taking cultural capital as another variable in my research. The studies you provided are very helpful, especially by Kamphuis and colleagues. I am working on cultural and health capital both to measure their effects on academic achievement. Can you suggest anything  specifically cultural capital?

Thank You Gibout,

Actually French language is alien to me. If it is possible for you to send me English translation of these studies, I would really appreciate this or only the article: Theorizing class, health and lifestyles: can Bourdieu help us? Sociol Health Illness.

If you referring to the well-being of the organisation's employees, you could administer instruments, such as the UWES-9 item, that target indicators of subjective well-being such as work engagement, psychological meaningfulness, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. These scales will quantify the data you are looking for.

Hi Shahzad,

although you refer your capital notion more to Sociology it might be worth having a look at Gary Becker - he referred to health as an aspect of human capital and proposes also related measurement:

G. Becker "Health as human capital: synthesis and extensions", Oxford University Press 2007.

Another possibility would be to consider health as an aspect of social capital - in this sense health is related to social aspects such as inclusion.

Maybe the OECD publication on social capital, human capital and health is also of interest to you:

https://www.oecd.org/edu/research/45760738.pdf

Best regards, Volker

thank you Täube, 

Becker's paper is really helping me, but I am using survey technique to deal with primary data. Do you have suggestions about this?

what indicators should I select to construct a tool on health capital? than I also have to deal with validity and reliability.