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Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity
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This article describes a framework and empirical evidence to support the argument that educational programs and policies are crucial public health interventions. Concepts of education and health are developed and linked, and we review a wide range of empirical studies to clarify pathways of linkage and explore implications. Basic educational expertise and skills, including fundamental knowledge, reasoning ability, emotional self-regulation, and interactional abilities, are critical components of health. 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. Public health policy makers, health practitioners and educators, and departments of health and education can collaborate to implement educational programs and policies for which systematic evidence indicates clear public health benefits.
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Hahn argues that education is both a core component of health and a causal social determinant, and that educational programs and policies should be treated as public health interventions to promote health equity. The paper synthesizes observational, quasi-experimental, and experimental evidence linking educational attainment to health behaviors, income, morbidity, mortality, and life expectancy.
Key findings
- Education is conceptualized as a personal attribute including knowledge, reasoning, emotional self-regulation, and interactional skills; it is both an element and a cause of health, operating through psychosocial environment, work/income, and healthy behavior pathways.
- In US adults, those with less than a high school education are 2.4 times as likely as high school graduates and 4.1 times as likely as those with post-secondary education to rate their health as poor, after controlling for demographics and income. At age 25 in 2005, men with less than high school could expect 44.2 additional years (to age 69.2), while men with a graduate degree could expect more than 15 years longer; women with less than high school could expect to live to 74.9, while women with a graduate degree could expect more than 11 years longer.
- Quasi-experimental compulsory schooling evidence indicates each additional required year reduced mortality by 3.6% over 10 years and gained 1.7 years of life expectancy at age 35. Early childhood experiments found Perry Preschool participants at age 40 had more chronic diseases but fewer deaths; Abecedarian participants by mid-30s had more favorable cardiovascular risk profiles, particularly males; Chicago Child-Parent Center participants at age 24 had lower out-of-home placement, violent arrests/convictions, and disability.
- Estimated annual deaths attributable to lack of high school education among US adults aged 25–64 were 237,410, exceeding smoking-attributable deaths among ages 35–64 at 163,500. The economic value of health forgone in 2006 by US adults without a college education was estimated at US$1.02 trillion per year, 7.7% of GDP; each high school dropout completing high school was estimated to yield a lifetime benefit of US$209,000, with cost–benefit ratios of 1.5 to 3.5 for five programs.
Methods
- Design: conceptual and review article that develops a framework and reviews empirical evidence; it uses Bradford-Hill criteria to assess causal association between education and health.
- Data/sample: cites observational cohort studies with concurrent controls, natural quasi-experiments in education policy, and educational experiments, including Perry Preschool, Carolina Abecedarian, Chicago Child-Parent Center, Lleras-Muney compulsory schooling analyses, Ross and Wu national probability samples, and Link et al. two US cohorts.
- Analysis: narrative synthesis and a conceptual pathway model linking education to health through psychosocial environment, work, and healthy behavior; no new primary data collection or systematic meta-analysis is reported.
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- Stated in paper: the focus is formal education measured in most research; education measures are problematic, including years of schooling, school completion, standardized tests, and teacher-assigned grades; true experiments in education are uncommon; and the relative contribution of pathway covariate groups cannot be determined precisely because the groups are unlikely to be causally independent and order of entry affects coefficients.
- Stated in paper: the literature is extensive but only a few examples are described; some estimates come from an unpublished manuscript and older data; specificity is an exception among Bradford-Hill criteria because education and its consequences are broad and heterogeneous.
- Evident from text: this is not a systematic review or meta-analysis, so example selection may not be exhaustive; causal inference from observational and quasi-experimental evidence remains subject to confounding, although the paper argues the Bradford-Hill criteria support causation.
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“Attainment of a certain level of formal education by young adulthood affects lifelong health through multiple pathways.”
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- Not checked yetcites [8] Ross CE Wu CL The links between education and health Am Soc Rev 1995 60 5 719 745 source
- Not checked yetcites [10] Egerter S Braveman P Sadegh-Nobari T Grossman-Kahn R Dekker M Education matters for health Educ Health 2009 6 1 15
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“controlling for such demographic characteristics of the kindergartner (including family income, household ownership, and marital status) diminishes, but by no means eliminates, the association found in this study.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Wages and Income, Resources for Health, Are Associated With Educational Success
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- Not checked yetcites [31] Chetty R Friedman JN Hilger N How does your kindergarten classroom affect your earnings? Evidence from Project Star Q J Econ 2011 126 4 1593 1660 22256342 source
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“Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity”
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“Wages and income are not health outcomes, but are closely linked with health outcomes because they provide access to health-related resources, such as healthy food, a safe environment, and healthcare.”
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“There is also strong evidence of a dose response between years of education and many health-related risk and protective behaviors among US adults.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Health Risk and Protective Behaviors Are Associated With Academic Achievement
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- Not checked yetcites [28] Cutler DM Lleras-Muney A Understanding differences in health behaviors by education J Health Econ 2010 29 1 28 19963292 PMC2824018 source
- Not checked yetcites [29] Winkelby MA Jatulis DE Frank E Fortmann SP Socioeconomic status and health: how education, income, and occupation contribute to risk factors for cardiovascular disease Am J Public Health 1992 82 6 816 820 1585961 PMC1694190 source
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“Causation in both directions is likely.”
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“Evidence of an association between high school student grades and risk behaviors in the United States is remarkably consistent; higher average grade achievement is associated with lower rates of risk behavior”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Health Risk and Protective Behaviors Are Associated With Academic Achievement
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [27] CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health Health-risk behaviors and academic achievement 2009 http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/health_and_academics/pdf/health_risk_behaviors.pdf Accessed May 5, 2014
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“The associations presented below satisfy several standard criteria for causation.”
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“a person who lacks basic elements of an education is not fully healthy.”
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- Not checked yetcites [8] Ross CE Wu CL The links between education and health Am Soc Rev 1995 60 5 719 745 source
- Not checked yetcites [9] World Health Organization Declaration of Alma-Ata 1978 http://www.who.int/publications/almaata_declaration_en.pdf?ua=1 Accessed May 9, 2014
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“In the causal chain, high educational attainment is antecedent to high wages or income.”
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“education is a fundamental social determinant of health – an upstream cause of health.”
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“we propose that education as a personal attribute is a central conceptual component and essential element of health, similar to physical fitness.”
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“A person is unhealthy who cannot conduct himself or herself effectively and achieve some level of “social well-being” – a critical element of the World Health Organization (WHO) conception of health”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Education as an Element of Health
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- Not checked yetcites [9] World Health Organization Declaration of Alma-Ata 1978 http://www.who.int/publications/almaata_declaration_en.pdf?ua=1 Accessed May 9, 2014
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“Basic educational expertise and skills, including fundamental knowledge, reasoning ability, emotional self-regulation, and interactional abilities, are critical components of health.”
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“A person is unhealthy if he or she lacks basic knowledge, the ability to reason, emotional capacities of self-awareness and emotional regulation, and skills of social interaction.”
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“Self-assessed health is a well-established index of morbidity and predictor of mortality.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Self-Assessed Health Is Associated With Educational Attainment
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [32] Ferraro KF Farmer MM Utility of health data from social surveys: is there a gold standard for measuring morbidity? Am Sociol Rev 1999 64 2 303 315 source
- Not checked yetcites [33] Idler EL Benyamini Y Self-rated health and mortality: a review of twenty seven studies community J Health Soc Behav 1997 38 21 37 9097506 source
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“the prevalence of several risk behaviors is generally higher among those with fewer than nine years of formal education, begins to decline among those who have nine to 12 years of formal education, and continues to decline with additional years of education”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Health Risk and Protective Behaviors Are Associated With Academic Achievement
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [28] Cutler DM Lleras-Muney A Understanding differences in health behaviors by education J Health Econ 2010 29 1 28 19963292 PMC2824018 source
- Not checked yetcites [29] Winkelby MA Jatulis DE Frank E Fortmann SP Socioeconomic status and health: how education, income, and occupation contribute to risk factors for cardiovascular disease Am J Public Health 1992 82 6 816 820 1585961 PMC1694190 source
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“intervention participants had greater levels of educational attainment, income, and health insurance, lived in safer family environments, and had lower rates of tobacco and drug use and risky driving behavior than controls.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Educational Experiments and Quasi-Experiments
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- Not checked yetcites [39] Muennig P Schweinhart L Montie J Neidell M Effects of a prekindergarten educational intervention on adult health: 37-year follow-up results of a randomized controlled trial Am J Public Health 2008 99 8 1431 1437 19542034 PMC2707464 source
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“Lleras-Muney45 uses a sample of US census data to estimate the effects on mortality of changes in compulsory education requirements in 30 states, comparing birth cohorts before and after such changes between 1915 and 1939 with long-term follow-up data.”
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- Not checked yetcites [45] Lleras-Muney A The relationship between education and adult mortality in the United States Rev Econ Stud 2005 72 189 221 source
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“The researchers find that separately controlling the effects of education and income on health outcomes for intelligence alters the coefficients for education and income minimally and leaves all associations statistically significant at the 0.05 level or less, indicating that little of the effect of education on health is mediated by intelligence.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > The Fallacy of the Endowment Hypothesis
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- Not checked yetcites [50] Link BG Phelan JC Miech R Westin EL The resources that matter: fundamental social causes of health disparities and the challenge of intelligence J Health Soc Behav 2008 49 1 72 91 18418986 source
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“At age 40 years, however, more intervention than control participants had chronic diseases, but fewer intervention participants had died.”
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- Not checked yetcites [39] Muennig P Schweinhart L Montie J Neidell M Effects of a prekindergarten educational intervention on adult health: 37-year follow-up results of a randomized controlled trial Am J Public Health 2008 99 8 1431 1437 19542034 PMC2707464 source
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“By age 21 years, participants in the early childhood education intervention (combining those with and without the strengthened primary school programming) had better health behaviors and better health than those who did not receive the early childhood education intervention.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Educational Experiments and Quasi-Experiments
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- Not checked yetcites [41] Muennig P Robertson D Johnson G The effect of an early education program on adult health: the Carolina Abecedarian project randomized controlled trial Am J Public Health 2011 101 512 516 21233425 PMC3036683 source
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“Both surveys find statistically significant effects of intelligence for both life-threatening illnesses and self-rated health; however, the effect magnitudes are diminished by a mean of 69.4% and statistical significance is again eliminated for all findings except for self-rated health in one of the surveys.”
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- Not checked yetcites [50] Link BG Phelan JC Miech R Westin EL The resources that matter: fundamental social causes of health disparities and the challenge of intelligence J Health Soc Behav 2008 49 1 72 91 18418986 source
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“At age 25 years, a woman in the United States with less than a high school education could expect to live to age 74.9 years; a woman with a graduate degree could expect to live more than 11 years longer.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Mortality and Life Expectancy Are Associated With Educational Attainment
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [38] Rostron BL Boies JL Arias E National Center for Health Statistics Education reporting and classification on death certificates in the United States Vital Health Stat 2010 2 151 1 19 25093685
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“The 3 clusters of covariates together explain between 55% and 59% of the variance in self-reported health and between 46% and 71% of physical functioning in these surveys.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Causal Pathways and Evidence Linking Education and Health
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- Not checked yetcites [8] Ross CE Wu CL The links between education and health Am Soc Rev 1995 60 5 719 745 source
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“At follow-up, both the preschool and the early schooling programs were shown to be beneficial in terms of academic achievement; the preschool program had the larger effect.”
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- Not checked yetcites [40] Ramey C Campbell FA Burchinal M Persistent effects of early childhood education on high-risk children and their mothers Appl Dev Sci 2000 4 2 14 source
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“the association increases with age when measured by the number of days per week reported as free of major symptoms. With increasing age, the gap in symptom-free days increases between those with a college degree, those with a high school degree or some college, and those with less than a high school degree”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Self-Assessed Health Is Associated With Educational Attainment
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- Not checked yetcites [36] Ross CE Wu CL Education, age and the cumulative advantage in health J Health Soc Behav 1996 37 104 120 8820314 source
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“The effects of psycho-social resources were also statistically significant and of similar magnitude.”
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- Not checked yetcites [8] Ross CE Wu CL The links between education and health Am Soc Rev 1995 60 5 719 745 source
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“at age 25 in 2005, a man in the United States with less than a high school education could expect to live an additional 44.2 years to age 69.2 years; a man with a graduate degree could expect to live more than 15 years longer.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Mortality and Life Expectancy Are Associated With Educational Attainment
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Rostron BL Boies JL Arias E National Center for Health Statistics Education reporting and classification on death certificates in the United States Vital Health Stat 2010 2 151 1 19 25093685
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“Only 1 of the 2 surveys finds a significant effect of intelligence on mortality (P<.05); controlling for education and income eliminates the significance of this finding.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > The Fallacy of the Endowment Hypothesis
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- Not checked yetcites [50] Link BG Phelan JC Miech R Westin EL The resources that matter: fundamental social causes of health disparities and the challenge of intelligence J Health Soc Behav 2008 49 1 72 91 18418986 source
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“Lleras-Muney concludes that each year of additional required schooling resulted in a reduction of mortality by 3.6% over 10 years, or gain of 1.7 years to life expectancy at 35 years of age.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Educational Experiments and Quasi-Experiments
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- Not checked yetcites [45] Lleras-Muney A The relationship between education and adult mortality in the United States Rev Econ Stud 2005 72 189 221 source
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“At age 24 years, in comparison with control subjects, participants had lower rates of out-of-home placement (indicating child abuse), lower rates of arrests and conviction for violent behaviors, and lower rates of disability.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Educational Experiments and Quasi-Experiments
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- Not checked yetcites [43] Reynolds AJ Temple JA Ou SR Effects of a school-based, early childhood intervention on adult health and well-being: a 19-year follow-up of low-income families Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2007 161 730 739 17679653 source
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“Other researchers have used regression discontinuity analysis to estimate the effects of education on rates of crime, arrest, and incarceration in the United States46 and on teenage births in the United States and Norway.47”
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- Not checked yetcites [46] Lochner L Moretti R The effect of education on crime: evidence from prison inmates, arrests, and self-reports Am Econ Rev 2004 94 155 189 source
- Not checked yetcites [47] Black SE Devereux PJ Salvanes KG Fast times at Ridgemont High? The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage births NBER Working Paper Series: Working Paper 10911 2004 http://www.nber.org/papers/w10911 Accessed May 9, 2014 source
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“Before entering kindergarten, control and experimental children were again randomized into either routine schooling or a strengthened school program complemented by home visits for parental guidance to reinforce child learning.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Educational Experiments and Quasi-Experiments
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [40] Ramey C Campbell FA Burchinal M Persistent effects of early childhood education on high-risk children and their mothers Appl Dev Sci 2000 4 2 14 source
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“In summary, education’s association with improved health is attributable to greater work opportunities and rewards, a greater sense of control and social support, healthier behaviors, and a direct effect on health.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Causal Pathways and Evidence Linking Education and Health
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [8] Ross CE Wu CL The links between education and health Am Soc Rev 1995 60 5 719 745 source
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“suggesting that the effects of education are pervasive throughout the lifespan, and that its consequences have cumulative effects on health over time.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Self-Assessed Health Is Associated With Educational Attainment
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [36] Ross CE Wu CL Education, age and the cumulative advantage in health J Health Soc Behav 1996 37 104 120 8820314 source
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“for most conditions the reverse direction of association is evident. Rates of major circulatory diseases, diabetes, liver disease, and several psychological symptoms (sadness, hopelessness, and worthlessness) show higher rates among adults with lower educational attainment.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Morbidity is Associated With Educational Attainment
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [35] Schiller JS Lucas JW Ward BW Peregoy JA National Center for Health Statistics Summary health statistics for U.S. adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2010 Vital Health Stat 2012 10 252 1 207 22834228
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In the paper
“It is plausible that health status affects the likelihood of educational achievement, but it is likely that the major force of causation is in the opposite direction.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Evidence of Causal Association > Self-Assessed Health Is Associated With Educational Attainment
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In the paper
“Beyond school health promotion, education as a means of public health intervention is more difficult to define, to administer, to measure, and to evaluate.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Education as a Domain of Public Health Action
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In the paper
“It is cumulative, formative, and transformative, both for the individuals who experience it and for the society it recreates and modifies.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Education as a Domain of Public Health Action
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In the paper
“Among social determinants, education is fundamental, because education forms the new members of society – children and youth.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Education as a Domain of Public Health Action
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In the paper
“In another study, Reynolds and Ross54 provide evidence that “the direct effect of education on well-being is greater than the direct effect of social origins, and the total effect of social origins is mediated mostly by education.”54(p226)”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Causal Pathways and Evidence Linking Education and Health
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [54] Reynolds JR Ross CE Social stratification and health: education’s benefit beyond economic status and social origins Soc Probl 1998 45 2 221 247 source
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In the paper
“Effective teachers are facilitators of long-term health benefits.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Education as a Domain of Public Health Action
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In the paper
“In particular, education is a powerful means of breaking the cycle of poverty (which greatly affects ethnic and racial minority populations) and promoting health equity.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Education as a Domain of Public Health Action
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In the paper
“Education is a critical component of health and, we argue, education is a major, long-term, multifaceted cause of health.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Education as a Domain of Public Health Action
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The paper relies on this without support.
The modal age for completing formal education in the United States is in the mid-20s and substantially precedes the peak age for mortality in the United States at 77 years of age.
“In addition, the modal age for completing formal education (the mid-20 s) substantially precedes the peak age for mortality in the United States (77 years of age) by many years, consistent with another Bradford-Hill principle, ie, the precedence of cause before effect.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Formal education is the aspect of education that is measured in most research.
“Although we conceive of education broadly, including both its formal and informal sources, the focus of our evidence review is the formal education that is measured in most research.”
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In the citing paper
“Educational achievement is an established social determinant of long-term health1,2”
In the citing paper
“When a social determinant of health is improved in a population, so is population health (Hahn & Truman 2015; Acevedo-Garcia and Osypuk, 2008, American Public Health Association, 2010; Binswanger, Redmond, Steiner & Hicks, 2012).”
From Civil rights as determinants of public health and racial and ethnic health equity: Health care, education, employment, and housing in the United States (2018) · cites this paper as Hahn & Truman 2015
In the citing paper
“Equitable access to education is also essential for health equity, because it allows the development of basic knowledge, problem-solving abilities, and social-emotional skills (Hahn & Truman, 2015) that allow full participation in society (Hahn and Truman, 2015, Ross and Wu, 1995, Feinstein et al., 2006).”
From Civil rights as determinants of public health and racial and ethnic health equity: Health care, education, employment, and housing in the United States (2018) · cites this paper as Hahn & Truman, 2015
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§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > Education as a Domain of Public Health Action
“In “A Framework for Public Health Action: The Health Impact Pyramid,”71 Frieden writes”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > References
“70. Frieden TR A framework for public health action: the health impact pyramid Am J Public Health 2010 100 590 595 20167880 PMC2836340”
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§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > High Societal Price in Health of Education Forgone
“Schoeni and colleagues57,58 estimate the annual economic value of health forgone in the United States in 2006 by adults who lack a college education.”
§ Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity > References
“58. Rothwell J Housing Costs, Zoning, and Access to High-Scoring Schools Metropolitan Policy Program: Brookings Institution 2012”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hahn, R. A., & Truman, B. I.
- Affiliations
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hahn, Robert A.
- Venue
- International Journal of Health Services
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2015-05-19
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 657-678
- ISSN
- 0020-7314 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-4469
- PMC
- PMC4691207
- OpenAlex
- W2139080455
- Semantic Scholar
- 126cfabe19ce9dac0e2c94f9047315594eba1c41
- Cited by
- 755
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 52 · 2025: 79 · 2024: 89 · 2023: 115 · 2022: 96 · 2021: 110 · 2020: 120 · 2019: 64 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 17.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- International Journal of Health Services (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (CC999999)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Public Health Policies and Education
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Keywords
- education and health, health equity, social determinants of health, educational intervention, education policy, educational attainment gap, low-income populations, racial and ethnic minorities, emotion regulation, educational skills, public health interventions
- MeSH terms
- Health Equity, Adult, Educational Status, Female, Health Status, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Morbidity, Public Health, Risk Factors, Socioeconomic Factors, Health Behavior, Social Determinants of Health
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