- 06 Mar, 2021
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education and health
Read the issue brief from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled “Education and Health” 2011,
located in the Reading and Study folder for this module/week. Discuss the following points in your
thread. Review the Discussion Board Instructions before posting your thread.
• There appears to be a dose-response relationship between educational attainment and health—the more you
get, the better it is. Why this is true is not clearly understood, though several reasonable hypotheses have been
proposed. Describe the 3 interrelated pathways presented as explanations for this relationship in this brief.
Which do you feel is the strongest? Why?
• According to data presented in the brief, “the United States is the only industrialized nation where young
people currently are less likely than members of their parents’ generation to be high-school graduates.” What
evidence is given to support this statement? Why do you think this situation exists? What will it take to correct
it?
• As would be expected, parents’ educational attainment is linked to their children’s health and even their
educational attainment. These linkages, in turn, influence the health and educational attainment of their
children’s children, as well, perpetuating an endless intergenerational cycle of high (or low) educational
attainment and its associated better (or poorer) health. How does this fit with the biblical understanding of
multigenerational influence (Exodus 34:6–7)? In what ways can the Church help interrupt the vicious cycle
beginning with low educational attainment? Pray that God will use you to be a positive influence on your
children in this area or on others whom God will bring across your path.
located in the Reading and Study folder for this module/week. Discuss the following points in your
thread. Review the Discussion Board Instructions before posting your thread.
• There appears to be a dose-response relationship between educational attainment and health—the more you
get, the better it is. Why this is true is not clearly understood, though several reasonable hypotheses have been
proposed. Describe the 3 interrelated pathways presented as explanations for this relationship in this brief.
Which do you feel is the strongest? Why?
• According to data presented in the brief, “the United States is the only industrialized nation where young
people currently are less likely than members of their parents’ generation to be high-school graduates.” What
evidence is given to support this statement? Why do you think this situation exists? What will it take to correct
it?
• As would be expected, parents’ educational attainment is linked to their children’s health and even their
educational attainment. These linkages, in turn, influence the health and educational attainment of their
children’s children, as well, perpetuating an endless intergenerational cycle of high (or low) educational
attainment and its associated better (or poorer) health. How does this fit with the biblical understanding of
multigenerational influence (Exodus 34:6–7)? In what ways can the Church help interrupt the vicious cycle
beginning with low educational attainment? Pray that God will use you to be a positive influence on your
children in this area or on others whom God will bring across your path.
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2011/05/education-matters-for-health.html
Above link is to open full pdf of paper for review