tailieunhanh - The Health and Education Benefits of Universal Primary Education for the Next Generation: Evidence from Tanzania

Over the decades, educating people about health has been an important strategy for preventing illness and injury. This approach has drawn heavily from the fields of public health, social science, communications, and education. Early experiments with education relied heavily on the delivery of information and facts. Gradually, educational approaches have turned more to skill development and to addressing all aspects of health, including physical, social, emotional, and mental well-being. Educating children and adolescents can instill positive health behaviours in the early years and prevent risk and premature death. It can also produce informed citizens who are able to seek services and advocate for policies and environments that. | Consortium for Research on Educational Access Transitions and Equity The Health and Education Benefits of Universal Primary Education for the Next Generation Evidence from Tanzania Ricardo Sabates Jo Westbrook Jimena Hernandez-Fernandez CREATE PATHWAYS TO ACCESS Research Monograph No. 62 May 2011 University of Sussex Centre for International Education I reate Consortium for Research on Educational Access Transitions Equity Funded by DFID The Consortium for Educational Access Transitions and Equity CREATE is a Research Programme Consortium supported by the UK Department for International Development DFID . Its purpose is to undertake research designed to improve access to basic education in developing countries. It seeks to achieve this through generating new knowledge and encouraging its application through effective communication and dissemination to national and international development agencies national governments education and development professionals non-government organisations and other interested stakeholders. Access to basic education lies at the heart of development. Lack of educational access and securely acquired knowledge and skill is both a part of the definition of poverty and a means for its diminution. Sustained access to meaningful learning that has value is critical to long term improvements in productivity the reduction of inter-generational cycles of poverty demographic transition preventive health care the empowerment of women and reductions in inequality. The CREATE partners CREATE is developing its research collaboratively with partners in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The lead partner of CREATE is the Centre for International Education at the University of Sussex. The partners are The Centre for International Education University of Sussex Professor Keith M Lewin Director The Institute of Education and Development BRAC University Dhaka Bangladesh Dr Manzoor Ahmed The National University of Educational Planning and Administration .