Being healthy is not only healthy for you, it is important because it can help you with your confidence and you can get more energy during day. As children we all think that school is boring and would rather go out with our friends than sit in class listening to the teacher, but the fact is that the higher level of education you acquire can be directly related to your health. The education you receive can also help you better because it will increase your knowledge and you will have a better understanding on how to take care of yourself, what I mean by this is become aware of your symptoms first and decide if it is something minor like a small cold or something serious like the flu. There is also a link between your gender and your health knowledge. The study had shown that education had a greater impact on females than males. “To consider the possibility that the impact of schooling on health knowledge differs between males and females, we re-estimated the models by adding an interaction variable between attendance and a dichotomous variable to indicate whether the person is female. The results, presented in Altindag et al. (2010), demonstrate that the impact of education is greater for women, and in some of the alcohol-related issues, such as alcohol dependence and alcohol-related liver damage, education has an impact on health knowledge for women but not for men” (Cannonier, C, Altindag, D. 2011). The methods used In the 2007 Hints survey the question was “Are you male or female?” There were only two answers that could be chosen: the first answer was male, while the second answer was female. The data was collected via telephone and mail, the number of people involved in the survey was 7,665. The number of males in... in the center of the paper... in number of males. This is only taking into account how they feel about taking care of themselves, not actually how they take care of themselves, which could influence the data captured. Works Cited Cannonier, C., & Altindag, D. (2011). The impact of education on health knowledge. Review of the Economics of Education, 30(5), 792-812. http://xerxes.calstate.edu/fullerton/articles/record?id=FETCH-LOGICAL-c3303-58641d5c4f8033451cdad5c3b5be3498cd3bfa526f051a37ec9798374bb59bf31 Frankfort-Nachmias and Leon-Guerrero: Social Statistics for a Diverse Society, se this edition Kim, YS, Park, YS, Allegrante, J.P., Marks, R., Ok, H., Ok Cho, K., & Garber, C.E. 2012 Relationship between physical activity and general mental health. Preventive Medicine 55(5), 458-463.http://hints.cancer.gov/question-details.aspx?dataset=2007&qid=881&qdid=2350&method=Combined