Education
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world – Nelson Mandela
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More education is what makes people live longer, not more money
When countries develop economically, people live longer lives. Development experts have long believed this is because having more money expands lifespan, but a massive new study suggests that education may play a bigger role. The finding has huge implications for public health spending.
Back in 1975, economists plotted rising life expectancies against countries’ wealth, and concluded that wealth itself increases longevity. It seemed self-evident: everything people need to be healthy – from food to medical care – costs money.
But soon it emerged that the data didn’t always fit that theory. Economic upturns didn’t always mean longer lives. In addition, for reasons that weren’t…
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The coronavirus pandemic is reshaping education
The pandemic is giving tech massive insights at scale as to what human development and learning looks like, allowing it to potentially shift from just content dissemination to augmenting relationships with teachers, personalization, and independence. But the way it is has been rolled out—overnight, with no training, and often not sufficient bandwidth—will leave many with a sour taste about the whole exercise.
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A lack of education could be as deadly as smoking. Here's why
In general, people with more years of education tend to be healthier. This could be because the knowledge they gain actually helps them — by making them more likely to exercise and eat well, or by making it easier for them to follow doctors' directions. Or it could be because having more education brings other social benefits.
America’s Two Most Troubled Sectors: Health and Education
By now almost everyone knows that the U.S. has fallen badly behind other advanced nations in the kind of health care and education it delivers to its citizens. We spend twice as much per capita than most other countries on health care and don’t get better outcomes as a result. We also spend twice as much per full-time equivalent student on higher education than other OECD countries, and 38 percent more on elementary and secondary education with disappointing results in terms of what students know at the end of the process, according to international assessments of learning.
Digital health education in 2021: Driving impact through purposeful design
We cannot expect health care providers or patients to learn in the same-old ways, when their needs and ways of communicating with one another other have evolved so acutely and profoundly. Continuing and patient education must meet the needs of providers and patients in our radically different post-COVID world.
Does Your Education Level Affect Your Health?
Some clever studies have teased out causal effects by taking advantage of natural experiments.
Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity
Education is a critical component of health and, we argue, education is a major, long-term, multifaceted cause of health. 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.
Learning to Listen to Patients’ Stories
Narrative medicine programs teach doctors and other caregivers “sensitive interviewing skills” and the art of “radical listening” to improve patient care.
Why Collaborative Care Must Begin with Collaborative Education
The benefits of a team-based approach to health-care education have been evident for many years. As far back as the early 1970s, the Institute of Medicine gathered more than 100 leaders from medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry and allied health professions to encourage interrelationships in their educational programs.
Why Education Matters to Health: Exploring the Causes
Why Education Matters to Health: Exploring the Causes is part two of the Education and Health Initiative, a four-part series seeking to raise awareness about the important connections between education and health.
Why education matters to your health — literally
Education matters in innumerable ways, impacting every aspect of an individual’s life. It affects civic engagement, home ownership, job status, income, just to name a few things. And it affects health.
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Whether we’re engaging clinicians on the front lines of medicine or educating patients and their caregivers to help empower them to take control of their health, the goal is always the same: to deliver measurable improved outcomes by distributing the right education to the right person, at the right time.
