Introduction
Education and health are two essential sectors that can play an important role in determining any region’s social development. Education provided during the first few years of a child's life plays an important role in the growth and development of children and allows them to live healthier and productive lives.
The benefits attained from primary education expand beyond individuals who receive schooling directly. Other members of the society also gain through externalities (Pradhan and Subramanian, 1999). Regardless of various initiatives through universalization of primary education, the number of people who are illiterate from ages seven and above increased from 360 million in 1981 to 381 million in 1991 in India according to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) statistics.
This paper focuses on health as a factor of school outcome and education as a determinant of good health. In India, health as a subject is not given much importance to be considered as a vital component of educational outcome, although it has been observed that health status, specifically malnutrition, is a key variable that affects child’s development. Several economists argue that malnutrition causes deficiencies in intellectual development in later years of life. Additionally, it is investigated in this paper how child’s characteristics such as aptitude, motivation and enthusiasm can be negatively impacted by poor nutritional status.
An attempt has been made in this paper to explore the interconnectedness between education and health in India. Proper education is mandatory for utilizing healthcare services in an optimal way. Efforts are made over the years to improve adult and female literacy rates beca...
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The article, “Education, poverty and schooling: a study of delhi slum dwellers”, highlights that “education positively influences poverty reduction, while poverty, or low income, adversely affects the quality and quantity of education”. This model is very much apparent in Jackie’s life. As she lacked formal education in the early stages of her life, she remained in the cycle of poverty even into her adulthood. Without the knowledge of how to change things and the inability of doing so, it is very much difficult, if not impossible, for her to get out of this infinite
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The term health is greatly influenced by factors both positively and negatively (Tones & Green 2004). An example portraying this statement, a persons’ income. A person who earns a high salary is a result of high educational achievement and a well paid job such as a Professor. They will have the advantage of experiencing both for themselves plus their family, better access to healthcare (Bupa) and live healthier lives Whereas for a person who earns a low salary and is working as a cleaner, both them and their family may be prone to chronic illnesses. This is due to lack of accessibility to healthcare and lower social being. This essay will be exploring factors that have impacted on a person’s socio-economic class, his/her social situation and
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are increasingly becoming a major problem of Public Health around the World. The impact of resources and material deprivation among people and populations has resulted in an increase in mortality rate on a planetary scale. Social determinants of health are defined as the personal, social, economic and the environmental conditions which determines the health status of an individual or population (Gardner, 2013). Today’s society is characterized by inequalities in health, education, income and many other factors which as a result is becoming a burden for Public Health around the world. Research studies have shown that the conditions in which people live and work strongly influenced their health. Individuals with high levels of education and fall within the high income bracket turn to have stable jobs, live in the best neighborhood and have access to quality health care system than individuals who have low education and fall with the low income bracket. This paper is to explain different social determinants of health and how they play ...
In today’s society it is broadly acknowledged that health issues are influenced by various social factors. Despite biological characteristics, the physical environment an individual lives in, and many more causes of health outcomes, education can deeply influence an individual 's well being. With that being said, education can shape many important factors in a person 's life, therefore it is the most important influence on health in the contemporary U.S.
Underlying mean of the health problems in our country, are poverty and poor education. Differences in socioeconomic status are seen for most conditions, diseases and sick factors in this country. The social distribution of health and social causes, which most effect health, must be understood and addressed. Total public and private health expenditure in Pakistan represents 2-3 %of the gross domestic product. (GDP). In 1990, less then 1% of GDP was allocated to public health care with private expenditure accounting for the rest. This is well below international standards because of the low levels of expending; it becomes critical to evaluate the impact of government policies of people’s health. In addition to direct provision of various governments influence health delivery in indirect ways through their policies towards medical education and regulations.
Fiorillo and Sabatini (2011) demonstrated that education and health are related; they proposed that education does not directly affect morbidity as such, but it provides people with a valuable tool that can be translated into positive occupational careers. This establishes the idea that working class people are required to utilise education as a tool to increase their occupational status and income, which will decrease their mortality and morbidity risks.
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People with more education have better physical and mental health; also education helps improve the overall quality of people’s lives. By helping people get better jobs, it reduces financial worries. It builds self-esteem, feeling of being in control; it also makes them critically aware of media messages about health. It contributes to health behaviors, such as moderate drinking, anti-smoking, according to the Institute of education at the University of London (Dec. 2004). As stated earlier, education reduces inequalities, creates intolerance, build social cohesion and boost the health of whole communities.
Developing countries like Brazil and India are getting divided into high quality formal and informal areas marked by insecurity and poverty. Due to urbanization in cities, there is a geographical concentration of high income groups in some places and poverty and less income groups in others. Due to uneven geographical distribution of socio economic resources health inequalities also persist resulting in poor people having poorer health. Greater inequality is therefore correlated with health of poorer population.
Indian population has a mixture of culture, variety of languages and difference in resources. The difference in occupational structure, literacy level, health status and other socio-economic factors among the states leads to the
Furthermore, education aids in gaining social support, from strengthening social networks to mitigating social stressors (Freudenberg & Ruglis, 2007). With education, people acquire a greater sense of control, and better health. Recent reviews show policies increasing educational achievement may play a significant role on population health (Freudenberg & Ruglis, 2007). In addition, estimates propose investments seeking to improve educational attainment can actually save more lives than medical advances. These possibilities can only be realized however if public health researchers develop new methods to study reciprocal relationships between health and education, and the need for
The healthier a child is the better student they are and the better education, we provide for each child the a much greater outcome for health over that child's lifetime. Early education is especially important because this is where the foundation is set. The more education a child gets on a healthier life the long life they will live. If a child is informed at an early age about healthy behavior, it could help kids with healthy behaviors like handwashing, routine exercising and why it’s important to be on a vaccine schedule. Being able to give every child access to the same success and improving outcomes is what we called health equity. Education is important in improving earning potentials. It really simple that education
It is noticeable that the system of education is changing from time to time based on financial issues and how the world is growing. In the past, individuals taught the education system from the oldest member of the family to children, and their members were charging fees from the families that sent their children to them. Which meant that education was an important thing in all ages. Nowadays, the education is shaped to an official system run by professional people in governments and many countries invest high amounts towards education which makes evidence of how important it is in our current life. Every country has a different system of education based on their financial stability, government infrastructure and the standard of the government officials. It is noticeable that there is a big difference between the education in developing countries and the prevailing system in developed countries .In my essay I will discuss some reasons for these differences...
In many countries with high levels of poverty, universal healthcare is a myth and quality healthcare is often a reserve for the financially endowed. Because of this, the poor are forced to contend with below par healthcare services, which are still comparatively expensive. The inability to access regular and balanced meals often results in poor health among individuals in this populace, with chronic illnesses being very common (Hickey & du Toit, 2013). Unfortunately, the same can be said of education. Many children in poverty stricken areas often drop out of school at early ages to seek employment. This is often driven by the need for every member of the household to contribute towards family expenses (Hatcher, 2016; Yoshikawa, Aber, & Beardslee, 2012). As a result, these children do not enjoy the benefits of proper education, which often results in many of these children still living within the same poverty brackets as their