The increasing value of education to health
Dana P. Goldman,James P. Smith +1 more
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It is found that health benefits associated with additional schooling rose over time by more than ten percentage points as measured by self-reported health status, which can be attributed to both a growing disparity by education in the probability of having major chronic diseases during middle age, and better health outcomes for those with each disease.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2011-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 120 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: National Health Interview Survey & Public health.read more
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Can Patient Self-Management Help Explain the SES Health Gradient?
Dana P. Goldman,James P. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: Differences by education in treatment adherence among patients with two illnesses, diabetes and HIV, are examined, and the subsequent impact of differential adherence on health status is assessed.
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Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity
TL;DR: The Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity as discussed by the authors report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
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Association among socioeconomic status, health behaviors, and all-cause mortality in the United States.
TL;DR: The distribution of health-damaging behaviors may explain a substantial proportion of excess mortality associated with low SES in the United States, suggesting the importance of social inequalities in unhealthy behaviors.
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The influence of education on health: an empirical assessment of OECD countries for the period 1995–2015
TL;DR: The country-level findings on NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) rates offer implications for economies to address a broad array of vulnerabilities ranging from unemployment, school life expectancy, and labor market discouragement.
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Understanding the Relationship Between Education and Health
Emily Zimmerman,Steven H. Woolf +1 more
TL;DR: This discussion paper aims to help inform and stimulate discussion and is not a report of the Institute of Medicine or of the National Research Council and has not been subjected to the review procedures of the institute.
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Self-rated health and mortality : a review of twenty-seven community studies
Ellen L. Idler,Yael Benyamini +1 more
TL;DR: This work examines the growing number of studies of survey respondents' global self-ratings of health as predictors of mortality in longitudinal studies of representative community samples and suggests several approaches to the next stage of research in this field.
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Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality
TL;DR: Unhealthy Societies as mentioned in this paper shows that social cohesion is crucial to the quality of life in the USA, Britain, Japan and Eastern Europe, and brings together evidence from the social and medical sciences.
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Healthy Bodies and Thick Wallets: The Dual Relation Between Health and Economic Status
TL;DR: The first section of this paper documents the size of the association between health and one prominent economic status measure--household wealth--and outlines reasons why health may alter household savings and the empirical magnitude of these effects.
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Skill‐Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles
David Card,John DiNardo +1 more
TL;DR: The recent rise in wage inequality is usually attributed to skill-biased technical change (SBTC) associated with new computer technologies as discussed by the authors, and the evidence for this hypothesis, focusing on the implications of SBTC for overall wage inequality and for changes in wage differentials between groups.
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The increasing disparity in mortality between socioeconomic groups in the United States 1960 and 1986.
TL;DR: Despite an overall decline in death rates in the United States since 1960, poor and poorly educated people still die at higher rates than those with higher incomes or better educations, and this disparity increased between 1960 and 1986.