Document 0408
 DOCN  M9440408
 TI    Health risk behaviors among adolescents who do and do not attend
       school--United States, 1992.
 DT    9404
 SO    MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1994 Mar 4;43(8):129-32. Unique Identifier :
       AIDSLINE MED/94142721
 AB    High proportions of U.S. high school students engage in behaviors that
       place them at increased risk for the leading causes of death and
       morbidity (e.g., motor-vehicle crashes and other unintentional injuries,
       homicide, suicide, heart disease, and cancer), unintended pregnancy, and
       infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually
       transmitted diseases. Because efforts to measure health-risk behaviors
       among adolescents throughout the United States have not included those
       who do not attend school, the prevalences of those behaviors are
       probably underestimated for the total adolescent population. To
       characterize more accurately the prevalence of selected health-risk
       behaviors among adolescents aged 12-19 years who do and do not attend
       school, CDC analyzed self-reported national data from the Youth Risk
       Behavior Survey (YRBS), conducted as part of the 1992 National Health
       Interview Survey (NHIS). This report summarizes the results of the
       analysis.
 DE    Adolescence  *Health Behavior  Human  Population Surveillance
       *Risk-Taking  Student Dropouts/*PSYCHOLOGY/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA
       Students/*PSYCHOLOGY/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA  United States/EPIDEMIOLOGY
       JOURNAL ARTICLE

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