IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH AND PROMOTING HEALTH EQUITY: EVALUATING EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE CONTEXT OF ISLAMIC HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

Health and educational concepts are being established and linked. Basic educational competence and skills, such as Physical, fundamental knowledge, Spiritual, emotional self-regulation, and interpersonal talents, are key components of health. Furthermore, education is an essential social predictor of health—an antecedent cause of health and wellbeing. The study aimed to offer a framework and empirical data to support the notion that educational programmes and policies are critical public health interventions and promote health equity. Completing and distributing an online ArcGIS Survey123 questionnaire with a five-Likert scale, which is an instrument for collecting the data through 145 communities of the colleges. The study applied a stratified random sampling technic, and employed a survey method with a descriptive qualitative analysis. The analysis is based on the application of Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) where one of the five paths is significant in evaluating the structural model. While the most substantial link was shown to exist between Administration Staffs’ Physical and Administration staffs’ Health Equity, the weakest significant link refers to the Students’ Interpersonal talent. Other hypotheses are reported to be insignificant. Findings indicate that context-sensitive for lecturer is Physical, Administration staff is Interpersonal talent, and for student is spiritual.