There appears to be a dose-response relationship between educational attainment and health—the more you get, the better it is.

After reviewing the Read: Why Education Matters to Health (an issue brief from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) found in the Learn section, discuss the following points in 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 an earlier version of this 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 does the current brief give 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?