Death Gap Widens Between Educated and Those Not
WEDNESDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) — Being well-educated can lengthen your life span, according to new study.
The research, published in the May 14 issue ofPLoS ONE, shows that the gap in overall death rates between Americans with less than a high school education and college graduates increased rapidly from 1993 to 2001.
The implication here is that less well educated people don’t know how to take care of themselves. This is part of a larger PR drive for “wellness programs” which our corporate misleadership hope will subsitute for action on healthcare.
Less well educated workers make less money, are less likely to have health insurance, and less likely to have access to health care.
Less educated people are more likely to have 2 or even three jobs. More likely to suffer from sleep deprivation, more likely to work on the feet all day, and in short, more likely to live highly stressed lives, physically and mentally.
Canada and France do not have these kinds of mortality gaps because even though they have poor and less educated people, Canada and France have functioning healthcare systems, we don’t.
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