About some evidences of health literacy

António Caleiro

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Abstract: Education and health are two fundamental pillars for development. This was immediately evident in the creation of the Human Development Index (HDI), by the United Nations Development Programme, back in the 1990s. In fact, knowledge and a long and healthy life – as is well known, two of the three dimensions of the HDI – interact with each other, being clear that better education contributes to a healthier, therefore longer, life, and this, in turn, allows for a better level of education. Given the above, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the importance of health education in contributing to sustainable development. From the outset, this importance derives from the nature of merit goods, which education and healthcare generally assume. Thus, gains in these pillars of development spread throughout the community, making sustainability easier to achieve.

Keywords: Education; Healthy Life Expectancy; Life Expectancy; Literacy; Self-Perceived Health (Status); Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I14 I18 I21 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-06-10, Revised 2020-06-12
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