Leveraging the Education-Health Connection: How Educators, Physicians, and Public Health Professionals Can Improve Education and Health Outcomes Throu (Birch David A.)(Paperback)

On the interdependent relationship between health and academic achievement.Research indicates that healthy children are more likely to succeed in school and that individuals who attain higher levels of education are more likely to experience better health outcomes in adulthood. To promote and support children's academic success, educators must view student health as an education issue. At the same time, public health professionals must view students' academic success as a public health issue. In Leveraging the Education-Health Connection, David A. Birch explores this interdependent relationship and lays out strategies to improve outcomes for both education and health.Birch provides evidence and recommendations on
- the links between student health and academic success and between education attainment and adult health outcomes;
- the impacts of
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