[EQ] Reframing School Dropout as a Public Health Issue

Reframing School Dropout as a Public Health Issue

 

Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH, Jessica Ruglis

Prev Chronic Dis Volume 4: No. 4, October 2007

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

 

Available online at: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/oct/07_0063.htm

 

“……Good education predicts good health, and disparities in health and in educational achievement are closely linked. Despite these connections, public health professionals rarely make reducing the number of students who drop out of school a priority, although nearly one-third of all students in the United States and half of black, Latino, and American Indian students do not graduate from high school on time. In this article, we summarize knowledge on the health benefits of high school graduation and discuss the pathways by which graduating from high school contributes to good health.

 

We examine strategies for reducing school dropout rates with a focus on interventions that improve school completion rates by improving students’ health. Finally, we recommend actions health professionals can take to reframe the school dropout rate as a public health issue and to improve school completion rates in the United States…..”

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

• Abstract

• Introduction

• Impact of High School Graduation on Health

• Pathways by Which Graduation Contributes to Improved Health

• High School Graduation in the United States

• Causes for School Dropout

• Health Interventions

• Recommendations

• Conclusion

• Author Information

• References

• Tables

 

Nicholas Freudenberg,  Distinguished Professor of Urban Public Health, Hunter College School of Health Sciences, City University of New York.

 

 

 

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