Journal of School Health articles from October 2004

Journal of School Health archives from October 2004

Youth risk behavior surveillance--United States, 2003 (Abridged).(Special Report)
October 1, 2004... In the United States, 70.8% of all deaths among youth and young adults aged 10-24 years result from only four causes: motor-vehicle crashes (32.3%), other unintentional injuries (11.7%), homicide (15.1%), and suicide (11.7%). (1) Substantial...

A contest to create media messages aimed at recruiting adolescents for stop smoking programs.
October 1, 2004... Each day 2,000 US adolescents begin to use tobacco. (1,2) Recent efforts have focused on developing effective stop smoking interventions for adolescents. Several studies identified recruitment for these programs as a major barrier to providing...

A qualitative evaluation of the Students of Service (SOS) program for sexual abstinence in Louisiana.
October 1, 2004... Unwanted teen pregnancies create costly and perplexing health, economic, and social problems in the United States. Recent declines in teen pregnancies and births produced a 20-year low in these rates; (1) however, the United States still...

Association of selected risk factors with variation in child and adolescent firearm mortality by state.(Research Papers)
October 1, 2004... American youth suffer a rate of firearm trauma that is the highest in the industrialized world. (1) A comparison of international patterns of firearm mortality in youth less than 15 years of age found that US children had 17 times higher...

A mental health screening project in Istanbul, Turkey.(Health Service Applications)
October 1, 2004... In Turkey, 12 million students and 500,000 teachers in 60,000 elementary schools comprise approximately 20% of the population. School-aged youth cannot benefit from regular primary health care services as do children under age five. The Turkish...