[Social capital and health in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review].

Objective: To identify validated information available on the relationship between social capital (SC) and health in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

Methods: A systematic search for papers published from January 1990-June 2007 was conducted on the Medline, SciELO, LILACS, and the Cochrane Library databases. All of the research and review articles published by scientific journals that evaluated CS and its relationship to health in LAC were included in the analysis.