Laudan Aron is a senior research associate in the Urban Institute’s Labor, Human Services and Population center. In this post, borrowed from the Urban Institute’s Metro Trends blog, she provides an overview of a recent New York Times article and discusses the important connections between income and health. Last Sunday, the New York Times business…
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Released this January, the first phase of the Center’s Education and Health Initiative highlights the growing importance of educational attainment to lifelong health. Given how strong an indicator education is for one’s health, it is important to look for ways of improving educational attainment, as this may be an effective way of improving health outcomes…
Following up on progress made since its initial recommendations were released in 2009, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Commission to Build a Healthier America released its 2014 recommendations today in an online event broadcast from Washington, DC. The Commission’s 2009 recommendations called for breaking down conventional policy-making silos; arguing that health is shaped greatly…
Americans without a high school diploma are living sicker, shorter lives than ever before, and the links between education and health matter more now than they have in the past, says a new policy brief and video released today by the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation….
By Frances Dumenci, University Public Affairs Appearing before a United States Senate subcommittee for the second time in as many months, Steven Woolf, M.D., director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health and professor of family medicine and population health in the VCU School of Medicine, is making a habit of lending…
Funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, Engaging Richmond is a community-university partnership that was formed to identify social factors that influence the health of residents living in Richmond’s East End. Based on focus group information gathered from approximately 195 participants, including men, women, parents, caregivers, elderly, homeless, employed and unemployed, many…
In my last few posts, I have discussed research highlighting the association between educational attainment and life expectancy, employment status, and other outcomes. A recent report out of the Urban Institute highlights the intergenerational effects of poverty and the educational attainment of parents on their children’s future prospects. In their report “Child Poverty and Its…
Advances in public health have contributed to a rising population life expectancy in developed nations since at least the beginning of the 20th century. Despite our growing longevity, disparities among different groups persist. A study issued by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society found that life expectancy for the non-Hispanic white population…
A report issued by the College Board Advocacy and Policy Center illustrates how trends in tuition and fees for college degrees have impacted access to advanced education in American higher education institutions. Using annual survey data from United States colleges and universities, the report estimates that the cost of attendance at public, private, four-year, and…
In August, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce released a report showing the impact of the great recession on employment for those with varying levels of educational attainment. The differences in losses during the recession and trends throughout the recovery have been stark between those with a high school diploma or less and…