Relationship between healthy elderly individual social capital and health according to ward level in Tomi City, Nagano Prefecture: an ecological study

Objectives: The aims of this study were 1) to elucidate the relationship between social capital and health by ward in Tomi City, Nagano Prefecture, in order to clarify the regional social resources available to support long-term care prevention utilizing self- and mutual support of regional residents and 2) to comprehensively investigate the activation of regional networks.