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Exploring opportunities for collaboration between health and education to improve population health : workshop summary / Joe Alper, Darla Thompson, and Alina Baciu ; Roundtable on Population Health Improvement ; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF file (xiii, 111 pages)) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780309314237
  • 0309314232
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Exploring opportunities for collaboration between health and education to improve population health.DDC classification:
  • 613 23
LOC classification:
  • RA440.5
NLM classification:
  • 2015 L-020
  • WA 30
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction and overview -- Why educational attainment is crucial to improving population health -- How can the health sector support education sector efforts at the level of students, families, and schools? -- How the nation's health care expenditures reduce education funding -- The potential of health sector partners to contribute to the implementation of the best evidence about what supports educational attainment -- State and local collaboration between the health and education sectors -- Final reflections and comments.
Abstract: Research based on decades of experience in the developing world has identified educational status, especially the status of the mother, as a major predictor of health outcomes and that the literature indicates that the gradient in health outcomes by educational attainment has steepened over the last four decades across the United States. Since the 1990s, while the average life expectancy in the United States has been steadily increasing, life expectancy has actually decreased for people without a high school education, especially white women. To understand the complex relationship between education and health and how this understanding could inform our nation's investments and policies, the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement held a public workshop in Washington, DC, on June 5, 2014. This workshop, which featured presentations and extensive discussion periods, also explored how the health and education sectors can work together more effectively to achieve improvements in both health status and educational achievement. This report summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.
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Research based on decades of experience in the developing world has identified educational status, especially the status of the mother, as a major predictor of health outcomes and that the literature indicates that the gradient in health outcomes by educational attainment has steepened over the last four decades across the United States. Since the 1990s, while the average life expectancy in the United States has been steadily increasing, life expectancy has actually decreased for people without a high school education, especially white women. To understand the complex relationship between education and health and how this understanding could inform our nation's investments and policies, the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement held a public workshop in Washington, DC, on June 5, 2014. This workshop, which featured presentations and extensive discussion periods, also explored how the health and education sectors can work together more effectively to achieve improvements in both health status and educational achievement. This report summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.

This activity was supported by contracts between the National Academy of Sciences and The California Endowment (20112338), the California HealthCare Foundation (17102), Health Partners, Health Resources and Services Administration (HHSH25034015T), Kaiser East Bay Community Foundation (20131471), The Kresge Foundation (101288), the Mayo Clinic, Missouri Foundation for Health (12-0879-SOF-12), the National Association of County and City Health Officials (2013-010204), Nemours, New York State Health Foundation (12-01708), Novo Nordisk, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (70555). The views presented in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the activity.

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Introduction and overview -- Why educational attainment is crucial to improving population health -- How can the health sector support education sector efforts at the level of students, families, and schools? -- How the nation's health care expenditures reduce education funding -- The potential of health sector partners to contribute to the implementation of the best evidence about what supports educational attainment -- State and local collaboration between the health and education sectors -- Final reflections and comments.

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