Education and health knowledge: Evidence from UK compulsory schooling reform

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue , 2015, Pages 92-100

  Johnston, David W ^a   Lordan, Grace ^b   Shields, Michael A ^a   Suziedelyte, Agne ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causality; Compulsory schooling; Education; Health; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION POLICY; EDUCATION REFORM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; LIFESTYLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HEART DISEASE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KNOWLEDGE; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MIGRAINE; STOMACH ULCER; UNITED KINGDOM; DIET; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXERCISE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; LIFESTYLE; SMOKING; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; DIET; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; SMOKING; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84922273741     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.026     Document Type: Article

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