HTHSCI 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Early Childhood Education, Cardiovascular Disease, Birth Weight

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HTHSCI 2RR3
• Professor: Allison Schure

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What do we know: education is positively associated with income. Income is positively associated with health: better socioeconomic status = better health. What do we still need to know: when should education" start, how exactly does education" impact health, buffer/protect/mediate, etc, consider the hertzman origins of three health effects (table 10. 1), latent effects, pathway effects, cumulative effects. Latent effects: biological, developmental early life experiences that produce health effects later, e. g. low birth weight predictor of incidence of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes in later life. Pathways effects: experiences that set individuals onto paths that influence health, well-being and competence over the life course, e. g. Children who enter school with delayed vocabulary (i. e. lower expectations, poor employment prospects, greater likelihood of illness/stress, etc. ) Cumulative effects: accumulation of advantage or disadvantage over time, which manifests in a range of indicators of health, these involve combinations of latent and pathway effects.