Education, wealth have different effects on health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The more educated you are, the less likely you are to become chronically ill or disabled, but the amount of money you make plays a bigger role in whether your illness progresses, a new study shows.

the most effective single policy strategy for improving health might be to make higher education more accessible

the more educated people are, the more likely they are to exercise, maintain a healthy weight, and eat a healthy diet.

People who hadn't finished high school were twice as likely as college graduates to develop functional limitations, while high school graduates who hadn't finished college were at 61 percent greater risk of becoming disabled than their college-educated peers.

level of education didn't play a role in whether people's health would further decline, or in mortality

income predicted whether people would become chronically ill, whether their illness would progress, and whether they would die