Just Health by Dayna Bowen Matthew

Author:Dayna Bowen Matthew
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York University Press

FIGURE 5.2: Risk of Death at Progressive Levels of Educational Attainment (NHW = non-Hispanic White; NHB = non-Hispanic Black). Source: Jennifer K. Montez, Robert A. Hummer, and Mark D. Hayward, “Educational Attainment and Adult Mortality in the United States: A Systematic Analysis of Functional Form,” Demography, 49, no. 1 (2012): 315–336.

These researchers conclude that the policy implications include the commonly agreed-upon need for early childhood education, smaller class size, and promoting early childhood well-being, as well as more controversial solutions such as school vouchers. However, they also identify the need to facilitate access to college for more Black youth, not just the academically select, and the need to promote and enforce equality in employment hiring and promotion to improve health outcomes.

Dr. Zimmerman and her team compiled updated evidence of the health impact of education. The results are startling:

At age 25, U.S. Adults without a high school diploma can expect to die 9 years sooner than college graduates.

According to one study, college graduates with only a Bachelor’s degree were 26 percent more likely to die during a 5-year study … than those with a professional degree.

Americans with less than a high school education were almost twice as likely to die in the next 5 years compared to those with a professional degree.…

By 2011, the prevalence of diabetes had reached 15 percent for adults without a high school education, compared with 7 percent for college graduates.12

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