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Leveraging the Education-Health Connection

How Educators, Physicians, and Public Health Professionals Can Improve Education and Health Outcomes throughout Life

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 social injustice and adverse childhood experiences on health and education;
• strategies for minimizing absenteeism, promoting students' and their parents' connection to the schools, and increasing graduation rates;
• the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model that provides a framework for health-promoting schools;
• the collaborative role of educators, physicians, and public health professionals in advocacy for schools that promote meaningful learning and student well-being; and
• the way to establish local coalitions that promote education and health.

Schools can act as partners with public health organizations to support initiatives that have a clear and direct bearing on educational outcomes, such as quality health education and physical education, nutrition education and services, mental and emotional health services, family and community engagement, faculty and staff health promotion, and a healthy and safe school environment. This guide is an important resource for everyone working at the intersection of public health and education.

About the Author

David A. Birch (TUSCALOOSA, AL) is professor emeritus in the Department of Health Science at the University of Alabama. He is the coeditor of Promoting Health and Academic Success: The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Approach.

Endorsements

"With an easy-to-read style, David Birch artfully synthesizes recent research to help us understand why and how we can improve education, health, and social justice by enabling community, state, and national leaders in these three areas to purposefully work together."

- Lloyd J. Kolbe, Founding Director, Division of Adolescent and School Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1988–2003); Emeritus Professor, Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington

"This book gets a gold star. Not only due to its authority on all aspects of the interdependence of education, health, and social justice but also because the author provides the reader a plethora of resources for further investigation and in support of his arguments."

- Elaine R. Hicks, LSU Health, New Orleans
Johns Hopkins University Press
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