scholarly journals The Modifying Influence of Country Development on the Effect of Individual Educational Attainment on Self-Rated Health

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (11) ◽  
pp. e49-e54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne L. F. van der Kooi ◽  
Karien Stronks ◽  
Caroline A. Thompson ◽  
Maral DerSarkissian ◽  
Onyebuchi A. Arah
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Self Rated Health

scholarly journals Health trends in the wake of the financial crisis—increasing inequalities?

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (18_suppl) ◽  
pp. 22-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Nelson ◽  
Anne Grete Tøge
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Health Trends ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Fixed Effects Regression

Aim: The financial crisis that hit Europe in 2007–2008 and the corresponding austerity policies have generated concern about increasing health inequalities, although impacts have been less salient than initially expected. One explanation could be that health inequalities emerged first a few years into the crisis. This study investigates health trends in the wake of the financial crisis and analyses health inequalities across a number of relevant population subgroups, including those defined by employment status, age, family type, gender, and educational attainment. Methods: This study uses individual-level panel data (EU-SILC, 2010–2013) to investigate trends in self-rated health. By applying individual fixed effects regression models, the study estimates the average yearly change in self-rated health for persons aged 15–64 years in 28 European countries. Health inequalities are investigated using stratified analyses. Results: Unemployed respondents, particularly those who were unemployed in all years of observation, had a steeper decline in self-rated health than the employed. Respondents of prime working age (25–54 years) had a steeper decline than their younger (15–24) and older (55–64) counterparts, while single parents had a more favorable trend in self-rated health than dual parents. We did not observe any increasing health inequalities based on gender or educational attainment. Conclusions: Health inequalities increased in the wake of the financial crisis, especially those associated with employment status, age, and family type. We did not observe increasing health inequalities in terms of levels of educational attainment and gender.

scholarly journals Educational attainment and self-rated health among African-Americans in Pitt County, NC

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eeshwar K Chandrasekar ◽  
Zimo Banta ◽  
Kathleen Ragan ◽  
Michelle Schmitz ◽  
Sherman James
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Pitt County

Educational Attainment and Self-Rated Health Status among Single Mothers in Rural Alabama

2013 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew A. Zekeri
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Rural Alabama ◽  
Modest Effect

Using previous data from a random sample of 300 single mothers from rural Alabama, multiple regression analysis indicated that food insecurity and employment status had a modest effect on self-rated health status, while educational attainment and income had the greatest effect. These variables explained 29% of the variance in health status. Social and economic policies that affect educational attainment and income distribution may have important consequences for health status in these rural areas.

scholarly journals Education, lifelong learning and self-rated health in later life in the USA

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Yamashita ◽  
Anthony R Bardo ◽  
Darren Liu ◽  
Ji Won Yoo
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Improve Health

Objective: This study examined the mediating effects of lifelong learning on the association between self-rated health and educational attainment among a nationally representative sample of US residents aged 50 years and older. Setting: Socioeconomic disparities in health are a major public health concern in economically developed nations where improving socioeconomic status (e.g. formal educational attainment) at the population level is challenging. In the light of population ageing, alternative approaches to improve health through malleable factors are urgently needed. Recent research suggests that participation in organised learning activities – lifelong learning – could attenuate the lack of formal educational attainment on health. Methods: Data come from the 2012 wave of the US Health and Retirement Study. Structural equation models with bootstrapping were used to estimate the mediation effect of lifelong learning activity in the relationship between self-rated health and formal educational attainment. Results: Approximately 3%–5% of the effect of formal education on self-rated health was mediated by lifelong learning activity. Findings from this study support the notion that ongoing participation in organised learning activities is beneficial for health in later life. Conclusion: Lifelong learning reflects a promising autonomous and sustainable strategy to improve health in later life. Future public health and education policy as well as education institutions should consider providing more learning opportunities for older populations.

scholarly journals High School Composition and Health Outcomes in Adulthood: A Cohort Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3799
Author(s):  
Alison K. Cohen ◽  
Emily J. Ozer ◽  
David H. Rehkopf ◽  
Barbara Abrams
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Socioeconomic Composition ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Background: A multitude of empirical evidence documents links between education and health, but this focuses primarily on educational attainment and not on characteristics of the school setting. Little is known about the extent to which aggregate characteristics of the school setting, such as student body demographics, are associated with adult health outcomes. Methods: We use the U.S. nationally representative National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort to statistically assess the association between two different measures of high school student composition (socioeconomic composition, racial/ethnic composition) and two different health outcomes at age 40 (self-rated health and obesity). Results: After adjusting for confounders, high school socioeconomic composition, but not racial/ethnic composition, was weakly associated with both obesity and worse self-rated health at age 40. However, after adding adult educational attainment to the model, only the association between high school socioeconomic composition and obesity remained statistically significant. Conclusions: Future research should explore possible mechanisms and also if findings are similar across other populations and in other school contexts. These results suggest that education policies that seek to break the link between socioeconomic composition and negative outcomes remain important but may have few spillover effects onto health.

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