The education effect on population health: A reassessment

Population and Development Review

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 307-332

  Baker, David P ^a   Leon, Juan ^a   Smith Greenaway, Emily G ^a   Collins, John ^b   Movit, Marcela ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; DISEASES; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CAUSALITY; DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 79959495126     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00412.x     Document Type: Article

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