Education and Health

Education influences health in several ways. Educated people have higher socioeconomic status and better lifestyle than illiterate ones. This book focuses on the relationships between level of formal education and subjective physical health status mediating through socioeconomic status (occupation income & family property) sociodemographic status (age structure marriage & family pattern) and lifestyle (sense of personal control timing of meal bathing smoking) between Muslim Hindu and Santal adult men in Bangladesh. The book contributes to educational and social discrimination may negatively influence minority men’s subjective physical health and social well-being.