"The health of our youth reflects the nation's well-being," CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said in an agency news release. "In the past decade, there have been substantial improvements in the behaviors that put students most at risk forHIVandsexually transmitted diseases." Between 2007 and...
Others have resulted in gutting key parts of the agency's website. Data from the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, a nationwide survey of high school students about mental health, substance abuse and violence, were also wiped from the website. The last round of thesurvey's resu...
Students who witnessed community violence were more likely to report carrying a gun, engaging in substance use and considering or attempting suicide.NEW YORK, April 28 (Xinhua) -- About 1 in 5 high school students in the United States has seen violence first-hand among people who are not rel...
a survey of tobacco use trends conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on behalf of the FDA and jointly funded by both agencies. The results showed asharp risein youth use of e-cigarettes, an increase of 78% (from 11.7%...
This research study of 13,878 youths indicates that religion is not by itself a very important predictor of youth substance use. It is, however, more strongly related to alcohol use than drug use. Also, fundamentalist religious groups have the lowest percentages of substance use in general, whi...
Psychosocial predictors of adolescent substance use in the Virgin Islands: Results of the 2007 Virgin Islands Youth Risk Behavior Survey The Virgin Islands Youth Risk Behavior Survey (VI YRBS), jointly administered by the VI Departments of Health and Education in May, 2007 to all available students...
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The article discusses statistics on tobacco use in the U.S. released in 2012 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The SAMHSA report found that cigarette sales to youth have declined since 1997...
The administration “is making it clear that we intend to clear the market of flavored e-cigarettes to reverse the deeply concerning epidemic of youth e-cigarette use that is impacting children, families, schools and communities,” US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azarsaid in a press...
This article demonstrates a research strategy and prevention methodology for substance using urban youth that incorporates individual, social, and geograph... Mason,Michael,Cheung,... - 《Substance Use & Misuse》 被引量: 88发表: 2004年 Social influences: effects of the social environment on the ...