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Why Do More Educated Communities Have Better Health Outcomes?


Why Do More Educated Communities Have Better Health Outcomes?

Nearly 60 percent of the correlation between area education and health is explained by differences in smoking and obesity. Adults in more ...

More educated communities tend to be healthier. Why? Culture.

Having more education has long been linked to better individual health. But those benefits are also contagious, say the co-authors of a new ...

Why Education Matters to Health: Exploring the Causes

The links are complex—and tied closely to income and to the skills and opportunities that people have to lead healthy lives in their communities. How are health ...

Social Determinant of Health: Education Is Crucial - Tulane University

Ultimately, more highly educated people have greater economic resources to afford things like better housing far away from environmental ...

Why Educational Attainment Is Crucial to Improving Population Health

The data also show that while there are steadily increasing benefits to getting more education, there is a major jump in the health benefits—what Woolf ...

The relationship between education and health: reducing disparities ...

Adults with higher educational attainment live healthier and longer lives compared to their less educated peers. The disparities are large and widening.

The influence of education on health: an empirical assessment of ...

The health effects of education are at the grass roots-creating better overall self-awareness on personal health and making healthcare more ...

Enrollment in Higher Education - Healthy People 2030 - health.gov

College graduates have better self-reported health than high school graduates, and individuals with more education are less likely to report conditions such as ...

Education and health: 7 ways learning leads to healthy living

Educational attainment predisposes a person to experience more positive health outcomes both in their ability to navigate their own healthcare and to make ...

Education: It Matters More to Health than Ever Before

More education leads to higher earnings that can provide access to healthy food, safer homes, and better health care. And policies in communities can help put ...

The Effects of Education on Health | NBER

More educated people are less likely to be hypertensive, or to suffer from emphysema or diabetes. Physical and mental functioning is also better for the better ...

Higher Education Linked to Greater Wellbeing, Job Fit and Societal ...

U.S. adults with a post-high school education have better health and well-being, are more likely to have jobs that align with their natural ...

What does education have to do with health?

However, less recognized is the impact of education on health outcomes. Americans with more education live longer, healthier lives than those with fewer years ...

Priority Area: Education – Community Vital Signs Initiative

The Robert Wood Johnson Report Foundation reports, “people with more education are likely to live longer, to experience better health outcomes, and to practice ...

Does Your Education Level Affect Your Health? - The New York Times

Education is associated with better health outcomes, but trying to figure out whether it actually causes better health is tricky.

Education and Health - American Public Health Association

Individuals who attend college report better health than those with only a high school diploma. College graduates are also more likely to own their own home ...

The Importance of Health Education | SNHU

Health education plays a pivotal role in improving community well-being by promoting knowledge and healthy practices across all age groups.

Review education policies - OECD: Social & health outcomes

More highly educated individuals tend to be better informed about health risks, and to have a greater sense of self-efficacy and self-control, ...

2 The Relationship Between Education and Health | School Success

As with the education–health gradient, higher levels of income are associated with better health across a wide range of both physical and mental health outcomes ...

Lifestyle: Social Determinants of Health: Education Access and Quality

An adequately funded education system can lead to safer and more supportive environments for all students and have positive effects on society's ...