Healthy Children, Better Learning, Verdure the World
The contribution of education on long term health has been described in terms of both potentiating and protective; it can trigger healthier futures, mitigate social stressors, and provide access to employment opportunities and life chances that could protect individuals from later life disadvantage. Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education. A healthy child is a better learner, that poverty usually constitutes a serious impediment to learning, and that what children do during the 80 percent of waking hours they are not in school can mean the difference between thriving and failing. Education is not just about learning facts, but more so about learning how to think. It is learning to make good choices. It is learning to act with purpose and becoming educated is a lifelong process. It can be hard and frustrating at times, but it can also be incredibly exciting and enriching. Most importantly, learning and education can help children to change the world by becoming a better person to thrive the potential by eliminating the apprehensions, learning from the mistakes as mistake is a crash course in learning. Seeking knowledge assists in the development of an aptitude for lifelong learning and problem solving feeling empowered and valued. These all have direct consequences on their long term health outcomes: whether through increasing someone’s likelihood of being able to afford a good quality life, or through better managing or being less exposed to life’s challenges. Education and health contribute to child's growth because when a child is educated then he knows the importance of health which enables to live healthily , leads to better jobs, including better health insurance, which leads to better access to quality health care in safer neighborhoods as well as healthier diets. Children who are exposed to situations of terror and horror during war experiences that may leave enduring impacts in post-traumatic stress disorder. Severe losses and disruptions in their lives lead to high rates of depression and anxiety and extreme psychological suffering. Children are dependent on the care, empathy, and attention of adults who love them. Their attachments are frequently disrupted in times of war, due to the loss of parents, extreme preoccupation of parents in protecting and finding subsistence for the family and emotional unavailability of depressed or distracted parents. Moreover the impacts in childhood may adversely affect the life trajectory of children far more than adults. Consider children who lose the opportunity for education during war, children who are forced to move into refugee or displaced person camps, where they wait for years in miserable circumstances for normal life to resume, if it ever does, a child disabled in war; loss of a limb, sight, or cognitive capacity, lose the opportunity of schooling and of a social life.
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