Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Supplement, August 21, 2020 / Vol. 69 / No.1

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• Alternative Title:
  Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States, 2019
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Supplement
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of Adolescent and School Health
• Description:
  Health risk behaviors practiced during adolescence often persist into adulthood and contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Youth health behavior data at the national, state, territorial, tribal, and local levels help monitor the effectiveness of public health interventions designed to promote adolescent health. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is the largest public health surveillance system in the United States, monitoring a broad range of health-related behaviors among high school students. YRBSS includes a nationally representative Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and separate state, local school district, territorial, and tribal school–based YRBSs. This overview report describes the surveillance system and the 2019 survey methodology, including sampling, data collection procedures, response rates, data processing, weighting, and analyses presented in this MMWR Supplement. A 2019 YRBS participation map, survey response rates, and student demographic characteristics are included. In 2019, a total of 78 YRBSs were administered to high school student populations across the United States (national and 44 states, 28 local school districts, three territories, and two tribal governments), the greatest number of participating sites with representative data since the surveillance system was established in 1991. The nine reports in this MMWR Supplement are based on national YRBS data collected during August 2018–June 2019. A full description of 2019 YRBS results and downloadable data are available (https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/index.htm)
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Population Surveillance / Methods Questionnaires Risk Taking
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Supplement, 2020; v.69, no. 1
• Series:
  Supplements: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  2380-8950 (print) ; 2380-8942 (digital)
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  88 pdf pages
• Volume:
  69
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:690bf9bde2458f3529b07eec83f7c88defb0b8064b714e2afbc8aea74e2078cd9a2ebe4f6b45ab31fc93d9eb88cf934d2fb764bc142f7d1c35bc015613d597bf
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/92357/cdc_92357_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.22 MB ]