Your education qualifications could affect the health of your children

According to a recent study conducted, researchers have found that parental education could affect the health of children. The study that appeared in the Southern Economic Journal, was led by Alan Monheit and Irina Grafova, at Rutgers School of Public Health. And after associating parental education and family health care spending in single-mother and two-parent families based on the data collected, they found that that parental education beyond 12 years is associated with an increase in family health care spending. Also, it shows a decrease in specific health conditions and poor health status, including hypertension, diabetes, and asthma.

“Our study confirms the important association between the educational attainment of parents and the family’s access to and use of health care services,” said Monheit. The study’s findings support the well-established “Grossman model of health demand,” in which health is a “good” that is inherited and increased by investments beyond the price of medical care, and depreciates over time as someone’s health naturally deteriorates over time.

This study thus strongly supports the critical association between education and monetary investments in health.