The effects of education on health

作者：S. O'hara Cochrane · 年份：1980 · 被引用次数：530 · 研究领域：Global Health Care Issues、Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare、Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

This paper investigates the effects of education on health. The determinants of mortality are receiving increasing scrutiny because the rate of mortality reduction in the developing world appears to have slowed at levels of life expectancy below those thought attainable only a few years ago. The first perspective employed in this paper is a broad assessment of the socioeconomic determinants of mortality on a cross-national basis; using aggregate data, this paper contains a review and a reanalysis of the large body of literature that has accumulated on international differences in mortality and life expectancy. The second perspective sharpens the focus by concentrating on the relationship between education and mortality since the cross-national evidence suggests that education, or its proxy literacy, is the most important variable involved. A theoretical model of the relationship between parental education and child health is developed and used to describe how aggregate and individual data may give different estimates of the relationship. The third perspective employed reviews and reanalyzes the evidence at the subnational level. Individual evidence is reviewed on the relationship between parental education and both child nutrition and child mortality.