I am a huge advocate of higher education. I suggest that everyone who is able to go on to further education after high school. The fact that everyone who wants to continue their education can’t is something that really bothers me. We need to invest in our country’s future by investing in our children’s education. Higher education has so many positive aspects and is now being linked to a longer life.
A recent study has show that a well-educated woman positively influences both her and her partner’s chances of a long life. The study was published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. It was a Swedish study in which the researchers found that a man whose partner has a high school education has a 25% greater risk of dying early than if she has a college education. The findings were based on 1.5 million Swedish citizens aged 30 to 59.
The study also found that a woman’s education was even more important than a man’s own education in predicting his life span. A woman’s education also affected her own mortality. They found that women with a high school education had a 53% risk of dying earlier than a college educated woman. These are very interesting findings.
In many families the wife or mother makes many of the “home decisions” such as what to have for breakfast, lunch and dinner, what cleaning products to use, which doctors to visit and even when and where to go on vacation. Of course I’m not saying it is like this in every household, but many of my friends and family members operate this way. The more a woman understands about health and wellness the better it will be for her partner and children. A woman with higher education will be better equipped to receive and interpret health information from a variety of sources. Education can have a direct effect on mortality. Education, lifestyle and lifespan are closely linked.
It is so important that those of us with daughters, granddaughters, nieces, friends, etc encourage and support their education. We hear so much talk about the rate of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and obesity but very rarely hear about the link to education. Be an advocate for education whenever you can. The health of our country depends on it.
- Jennifer
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I heard about this too & a great post! Yes, let's encourage!