{"id":8339,"date":"2012-01-16T05:56:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gasdetection.com\/?page_id=8339"},"modified":"2021-08-25T11:57:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T18:57:24","slug":"people-education-healthier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gasdetection.com\/interscan-in-the-news\/magazine-articles\/people-education-healthier\/","title":{"rendered":"People With More Education Are Healthier"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Health<\/a><\/p>\n

January 16, 2012<\/p>\n

People With More Education Are Healthier<\/p>\n\"School\"\n

By\u00a0 Michael D. Shaw<\/p>\n

You may have heard this before, and multiple studies seem to confirm it, but let’s be precise about what we’re saying. A September, 2009 issue brief entitled “Education Matters for Health”\u2014sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\u2014expresses it this way:<\/p>\n

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[A] large body of evidence strongly\u2014and, with very rare exceptions, consistently\u2014links education with health, even when other factors like income are taken into account. By “education” we mean educational attainment, or the years or level of overall schooling a person has, rather than instruction on specific health topics like hygiene, diet or exercise[.]<\/p>\n

People with more education are likely to live longer, to experience better health outcomes, and to practice health-promoting behaviors such as exercising regularly, refraining from smoking, and obtaining timely health care check-ups and screenings.<\/p>\n

Educational attainment among adults is linked with children’s health as well, beginning early in life: babies of more-educated mothers are less likely to die before their first birthdays, and children of more-educated parents experience better health.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article lists three basic and interrelated mechanisms whereby increased educational attainment promotes better health…<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Education can lead to improved health by increasing health knowledge and healthy behaviors.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Greater educational attainment leads to better employment opportunities and higher income, which are linked with better health.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Education is linked with social and psychological factors that affect health.<\/p>\n

Expanding on this last mechanism, the article details these factors:<\/p>\n