Investments in Adolescent and School Health Programs Help Youth Become Healthy, Successful Adults

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of Adolescent and School Health.
• Description:
  The Division of Adolescent and School Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works to protect our nation’s youth from HIV, STDs, and pregnancy through data-driven programs. School-based surveillance provides critical data about health risks facing youth. These data help inform effective school-based prevention programs that link education and public health to do the following:
  
  • Deliver quality health education
  
  • Create systems to link students to health services
  
  • Establish safe and supportive school environments
  
  From 2013 through 2018, 17 school districts funded by CDC expanded sexual health education, increased access to sexual health services, and improved school connectedness. The 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) data collected in these districts showed significant declines in the percentage of students who had ever had sex, were currently sexually active, or had four or more sexual partners in their lifetime.
  
  DASH_Success_Story_Summary.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Health Services Health Promotion Humans Public Health School Health Services Sexually Transmitted Diseases/prevention & Control
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
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