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Is there a relationship between schooling and risky health behaviors in Colombia?
- Source :
- Cuadernos de Economía, Vol 38, Iss 77, Pp 365-397 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2019.
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Abstract
- This paper uses the National Health Survey to analyze the relationship between education and risky health behaviors, namely smoking, heavy drinking, obesity, and unsafe sexual behavior, by estimating the education gradient. We also provide evidence on the effect of education, socio-economic and knowledge variables on these health behaviors by gender and area of residence. The results indicate that there is a negative and significant effect of years of schooling on the probability of smoking, whereas the probability of heavy drinking and unsafe sexual behaviors increase with education, highlighting the importance of social and cultural factors.
- Subjects :
- risky health behaviors
Colombia
Education
lcsh:Economic history and conditions
lcsh:Social Sciences
03 medical and health sciences
logit
0302 clinical medicine
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Environmental health
0502 economics and business
medicine
Area of residence
030212 general & internal medicine
050207 economics
National health
Heavy drinking
05 social sciences
medicine.disease
Obesity
lcsh:H
Sexual behavior
lcsh:HC10-1085
Psychology
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22484337 and 01214772
- Volume :
- 38
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cuadernos de Economía
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1fea0508e72b0ced84e1d139cbb68e2a