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- An additional four years of education lowers five-year mortality by 1.8 percentage points; it also reduces the risk of heart disease by 2.16 percentage points, and the risk of diabetes by 1.3 percentage points. There is a well known, large, and persistent association between education and health.
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Education is strongly associated with life expectancy, morbidity, health behaviours, and educational attainment plays an important role in health by shaping opportunities, employment, and income. In this issue of The Lancet Public Health, two research Articles emphasise the lifelong impact of education on health.
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- Comparison of Health Outcomes For Countries by GDP Per Capita
- Association of Infant Mortality Rates with Enrollment Rates and Education Levels
- Association of Education Outcomes with Life Expectancy at Birth
- Association of Tertiary Enrollment and Education with Child Vaccination Rates
- Association Between Adult Education Levels and Health Expenditure
- Distribution of Life Expectancy at Birth and Tertiary Enrollment Rate
- Distribution of Infant Mortality Rates by Continent
- Association Between Child Vaccination Rates and NEET Rates
- Average Smoking Rate in Different Continents Over Time
- Association Between Adult Education Levels and Deaths from Cancer
We first analyzed to see if our data reflected the expectation that countries with higher GDP per capita have better health status (Fig. 1). We compared the average life expectancy at birth, average infant mortality, average deaths from cancer and average potential year of life lost, for different levels of GDP per capita (Fig. 1). Figure 1 depicts...
We explored the association of infant mortality rates with the enrollment rates and adult educational levels for all countries (Fig. 2). The expectation is that with higher education and employment the infant mortality rate decreases. Figure 2depicts the analysis for all countries in the sample. The figure shows the years from 1995 to 2015 on the X...
We explored if the education outcomes of adult education level (tertiary), school life expectancy (tertiary), and NEET (not in employment, education, or training) rates, affected life expectancy at birth (Fig. 3). Our expectation is that adult education and school life expectancy, particularly tertiary, have a positive influence, while NEET has an ...
We compared the performance of tertiary education level and enrollment rates with the child vaccination rates (Fig. 5) to assess if there was a positive impact of education on preventive healthcare. In this analysis (Fig. 5), we looked for associations of child vaccination rates with tertiary enrollment and tertiary education. The analysis is for a...
It is interesting to note the relationship between health expenditure and adult education levels (Fig. 8). We expect them to be positively associated. Figure 8shows a heat map with the number of countries in different combinations of groups between tertiary and upper-secondary adult education level. We emphasize the higher levels of adult education...
The distribution of enrollment rate (tertiary) and life expectancy of all the countries in the sample can give an idea of the current status of both education and health (Fig. 10). We expect these to be positively associated. Figure 10shows two histograms with the lines representing the distribution of life expectancy at birth and the tertiary enro...
Infant mortality is an important indicator of a country’s health status. Figure 12shows the distribution of infant mortality for the continents of Asia, Europe, Oceania, North and South America. We grouped the countries in each continent into high, medium, and low, based on infant mortality rates. In Fig. 12, each bar represents a continent. All co...
We looked at the association between child vaccination rates and NEET rates in various countries (Fig. 13). We expect countries that have high NEET rates to have low child vaccination rates. Figure 13displays the child vaccination rates in the first map and the NEET rates in the second map, for all countries. The darker green color shows countries ...
We compared the trend of average smoking rate for the years 1995–201 for the continents in the sample (Fig. 14). Figure 14depicts the line charts of average smoking rates for the continents of Asia, Europe, Oceania, North and South America. All the lines show an overall downward trend, which indicates that the average smoking rate decreases with ti...
We explored if adult education levels (below-secondary, upper-secondary, and tertiary) are associated with deaths from cancer (Fig. 15) such that higher levels of education will mitigate the rates of deaths from cancer, due to increased awareness and proactive health behavior. Figure 15shows the correlations of deaths from cancer among the three ad...
- Viju Raghupathi, Wullianallur Raghupathi
- 2020
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.
Aug 27, 2024 · The link between education to health and well-being is clear. Education develops the skills, values and attitudes that enable learners to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, make informed decisions, and engage in positive relationships with everyone around them. Poor health can have a detrimental effect on school attendance and academic performance.
Adults with higher educational attainment live healthier and longer lives compared with their less educated peers. The disparities are large and widening. We posit that understanding the educational and macrolevel contexts in which this association occurs is key to reducing health disparities and improving population health.
Aug 1, 2019 · In all countries, there is a clear gradient for the relationship between education and poor health, with those in the lowest level of education reporting worse health than those in the middle category, while these latter report worse health than those in the highest category.
Aug 1, 2019 · UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATION AND HEALTH. Education can produce better health through multiple pathways (see Figure 2-2). For example, those who have more education have the ability to access more economic resources, such as better-paying jobs with health insurance benefits.
