Addressing health disparities through education

Individual Author(s) / Organizational Author
Anderson, Karen
Olsen, Steve
Publisher
The National Academies Press
Date
June 2016
Publication
Advancing Health Equity for Native American Youth: Workshop Summary
Abstract / Description

Education is related to the success of young people in a variety of ways, noted roundtable member Jeffrey Henderson, president and chief executive officer of the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health and moderator of the panel on education at the workshop. In particular, education can generate resilience, he said, and resilience in turn can drive educational attainment. 

Three speakers at the workshop examined aspects of the relationship between education and health equity. Most of the interventions they described are designed to increase the representation of Native Americans in the health care and health research workforce, but experience with those interventions has produced lessons that can be applied much more broadly. (author abstract) 

Artifact Type
Application
Reference Type
Book Chapter/Book
Workshop
Topic Area
Social/Structural Determinants » Education » Early Childhood Education