Chapter 3 of 2020 Healthy People, a white paper Chen produced for the Department of Health, argues that the “ health behaviors ” of low-education individuals are poorer across the board than those of high-education individuals. (Poor “ health behaviors ” include activities such as smoking and drinking to excess.) As a result, low-education individuals require more urgent and more frequent medical interventions.
陳美霞在行政院衛生署出版的《2020 健康國民白皮書》第 3 篇〈焦點族群〉「社經弱勢群體」中指陳，低教育程度弱勢群體的「健康行為」普遍較高教育程度者差（如抽煙、酗酒、酒駕、衛生不佳等），因此對醫療的需求較迫切，利用醫療服務也較頻仍。