School Health Programs: Education, Health and Welfare Dependency of Young Adults

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This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively low cost have positive and lasting impacts. We use variation from a 1999‐reform in Norway that induced substantial differences in the availability of health professionals across municipalities and cohorts. In municipalities with one fewer school nurse per 1,000 schoolage children before the reform there was an increase in the availability of nurses of 35% from the pre‐ to the post‐reform period, attributed to the policy change. The reform reduced teenage pregnancies and increased college attendance for girls. It also reduced the take‐up of welfare benefits by ages 26 and 30 and increased the planned use of primary and specialist health care services at ages 25‐35, without impacts on emergency room admissions. The reform also improved the health of newborns of affected new mothers and reduced the likelihood of miscarriages.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CINCH Series ; No. 2021/04

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions ; Health: General ; Health Behavior ; Education: Government Policy ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
• Subject: School Health Services ; Teenage Pregnancy ; Welfare Dependency ; Utilization of Health Services ; Health Status Creation-Date: 2021-07-29

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Abrahamsen, Signe A. ; Ginja, Rita ; Riise, Julie
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Duisburg-Essen, CINCH - Health Economics Research Center
• (where): Essen
• (when): 2021

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.17185/duepublico/74644
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/270594
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET