Dr Terje Andreas Eikemo, study co-author and head of the Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, reveals that each additional year spent in education could reduce mortality by around two percent
Want to live longer? Get an education! This might sound like surprising advice, but that's exactly what researchers found when they looked at the impact of education on life expectancy. Their findings reveal that each additional year spent in education could reduce mortality by around 2%.