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Education, Poverty, and Health

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Number of people that live in extreme poverty
1.2 billion
Those in poverty live on less than _____ a day
$1
True/False: Poverty creates ill-health because it forces people to live in environments that make them sick, without decent shelter, clean water or adequate sanitation
True
True/False: Better educated people have lower morbidity rates from the most common
acute and chronic diseases, independent of basic demographic and labor market factors
True
Percentage of the US population has a college degree
20-25%
True/False: Health behaviors alone can account for health status differences between those who are less educated and those who have more years of education
False: health behaviors alone cannot account for health status differences
Healthier workers are:
more productive, earn higher wages, and miss fewer days of work
_______________________________ are widespread - but preventable - causes of death and disability
Tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse
________________________________ has a profound effect on poverty and malnutrition in low-income countries, when poor families purchase addictive tobacco rather than food
Tobacco, alcohol, and drug use
Alcohol-related diseases affect __________%___ of the world's population each year and alcohol use is the _______________-highest cause of disability worldwide
5-10%/ fourth
four years of education lowers mortality by ___________________
1.8 percentage points
four years of education reduces risk of heart disease by ______________
2.16 percentage points
four years of education reduces risk of diabetes by _________________
1.3 percentage points
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