Long-term health implications of school quality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Individual academic achievement is a well-known predictor of adult health, and addressing education inequities may be critical to reducing health disparities. Disparities in school quality are well documented. However, we lack nationally representative studies evaluating the impact of school quality on adult health. We aim to determine whether high school quality predicts adult health outcomes after controlling for baseline health, socio-demographics and individual academic achievement.

Methods

We analyzed data from 7037 adolescents who attended one of 77 high schools in the Unites States and were followed into adulthood from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Selected school-level quality measures-average daily attendance, school promot

SUBMITTER: Dudovitz RN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4875819 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature