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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Titel

Improving Health and Social Cohesion through Education

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Education and civic and social engagement -- Education and health -- The empirical framework -- Conclusion: policy messages and future agenda -- Improving health through cost-effective educational interventions -- Introduction -- Foreword -- Executive summary.
• Today’s global policy climate underlines the importance of better addressing non-economic dimensions of well-being and social progress such as health, social engagement, political interest and crime. Education plays an important role in shaping indicators of progress. However, we understand little about the causal effects, the causal pathways, the role of contexts and the relative impacts that different educational interventions have on social outcomes. This report addresses challenges in assessing the social outcomes of learning by providing a synthesis of the existing evidence, original data analyses and policy discussions. The report finds that education has the potential to promote health as well as civic and social engagement. Education may reduce inequalities by fostering cognitive, social and emotional skills and promoting healthy lifestyles, participatory practices and norms. These efforts are most likely to be successful when family and community environments are aligned with the efforts made in educational institutions. This calls for ensuring policy coherence across sectors and stages of education.
• English