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This page contains some links to various monitoring and reporting activities in the United States. It was prepared as part of a webinar held on January 13, 2009

From CDC (Division of Adolescent and School Health)
Our Mission: Four Strategies to Promote National School HealthCDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) seeks to prevent the most serious health risk behaviors among children, adolescents and young adults. To accomplish this mission DASH implements four strategies.

1. Identify and Monitor

CDC conducts surveillance activities to monitor six categories of priority health risk behaviors, including sexual behaviors and school health policies and programs among all 50 states. These activities are primarily conducted through CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), the School Health Profiles, and School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS).
  • TheYouth Risk Behavior Surveillance System(YRBSS) provides national, state, and local level data on the prevalence of six categories of priority health risk behaviors. The YRBSS provides CDC, states, and others with vital information to more effectively target and evaluate programs. State and local education agencies use data from YRBSS to inform policymakers about the need for interventions in their jurisdictions to help young people avoid risk behaviors.
  • TheSchool Health Profileshelps state and local education and health agencies monitor the current status of school health education; school health policies related to HIV infection/AIDS, tobacco use prevention, unintentional injuries and violence, physical activity, and food service; physical education; asthma management activities; and family and community involvement in school health programs. State and local education and health agencies conduct the survey biennially at the middle/junior high school and senior high school levels in their states or districts, respectively.
  • TheSchool Health Policies and Programs Study(SHPPS) is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and programs at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. SHPPS is used to monitor the status of the nation's school health policies and programs; describe the professional background of the personnel who deliver each component of the school health program; describe relationships between state and district policies and school health programs and practices; and identify factors that facilitate or impede delivery of effective school health programs.
Dissemination
The CDC disseminates the results in a variety of ways, including scientifica reports, fact sheets and even podcasts/videos.
Listen to CDC'sA Minute of Healthpodcast featuring YRBS results.An interview with Dr. Wechsler is also available on CDC'sA Cup of Healthpodcast.Read more from Dr. Wechsler on his WebMD blog:Nation's Teens: Some Still Riskier Than Others.*To access the report (one of CDC'sMMWR Surveillance Summaries), new fact sheets on the YRBS, national YRBS data files, and technical documentation, visitYRBSS: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System.
AnalysisSince CDC collects both health behavior and policy/program status data, it is able to do joint analysis of the findings.
Student Behaviors and School Policies and Practices
National, state, and large urban school district specific fact sheets onchildhood obesity,the HIV epidemic,tobacco-use, andviolence preventionthat combine YRBS data with either School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) data or School Health Profiles data.




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