ABSTRACT
This chapter defines the words "health" and "healthy" as used in common English and in health surveys. It describes the measures of health that are used in surveys, and shows how each correlates with level of education. The chapter assesses emotional well-being: feelings of depression and anxiety and represents awareness of morbidity and risks to life: diagnoses of serious chronic diseases and personal longevity expectations. It argues that control over one's own life and the healthy lifestyle that goes with that control account for most of the association between education and health. The chapter reviews a number of other things associated with higher education that also may contribute to its association with health, including employment and the qualities of one's occupation and work, marital quality, work-family accommodation, and older age at first marriage and first birth. It also describes the phenomenon of cumulative advantage by which the beneficial effects of education accumulate and compound over the lifetime.
