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Jan 27, 2021 · How is education a social determinant of health? Explore how Tulane University’s Master of Public Health prepares graduates to address factors impacting health.
Education is the most important modifiable social determinant of health. As we enter a post-COVID-19 era, there is an unprecedented opportunity to integrate SDGs 3 and 4, to achieve the interdependent goals of healthy, resilient, and fair societies.
Apr 6, 2020 · We highlight that tertiary education, particularly, is critical in influencing infant mortality, life expectancy, child vaccination, and enrollment rates. In addition, an economy needs to consider potential years of life lost (premature mortality) as a measure of health quality.
- Viju Raghupathi, Wullianallur Raghupathi
- 2020
Jun 5, 2014 · Of the various social determinants of health that explain health disparities by geography or demographic characteristics (e.g., age, gender, race-ethnicity), the literature has always pointed prominently to education.
- Emily Zimmerman, Steven H. Woolf
- 2014
Apr 27, 2022 · Abstract. The objective of this essay is to clarify the understanding and use of Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) by exploring basic characteristics of ‘determinants’ and ‘fundamental causes,’ the ‘social,’ ‘structure,’ and ‘modifiability,’ and to consider theoretical and practical implications of this ...
- Robert A. Hahn
Jan 26, 2017 · Education is one of the most powerful drivers of wellness, particularly with regard to life expectancy and healthy behaviors. A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Snapshot makes this clear: four additional years of education reduces an individual’s risk of diabetes by 1.3%, heart disease by 2.2%, obesity by 5%, and smoking by 12%.
May 19, 2015 · Moreover, education is a fundamental social determinant of health – an upstream cause of health. Programs that close gaps in educational outcomes between low-income or racial and ethnic minority populations and higher-income or majority populations are needed to promote health equity.
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