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Playground Injuries Fact Sheet
Fact sheet about playground injuries in the United States. Includes an overview, occurrence, and cost information.
Prepregnancy Contraceptive Use Among Teens with Unintended Pregnancies Resulting in Live Births, 2004–2008
Data from this Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from January 2012 offers insight into current statistics about teens not using contraception, teens who give birth, the risks of early childbearing, and why this is a public health issue. The data was collected from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), which collects state-specific, population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences before, during, and shortly after pregnancy.
Robbing the Future: Smoking and Youth
A new video, “Robbing the Future,” explores the various ways the tobacco industry targets young people, as well as the growing popularity of products like e-cigarettes and the dangers associated with their use. An accompanying fact sheet (PDF, 2 pages) includes information about the health effects of tobacco use, e-cigarettes, and secondhand smoke among youth and young adults, and the ways in which cigarettes are marketed to young people.
State-based Occupational Health Surveillance Clearinghouse
This is a clearinghouse of state-developed products supported through NIOSH Surveillance cooperative agreements. Data and products focused on young workers can be identified by using the search link and terms such as "youth" and "young worker.
Suicide Prevention Resources
This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention created suicide prevention resources developed from federal and local partnerships. The site contains information about a national strategy for suicide prevention, data and trends, and youth-specific information.
Trends in the Prevalence of Sexual Behaviors, 1991-2009
The National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (NYRBS) monitors priority health risk behaviors that contribute to health and social problems among youth and young adults. This report shows trends, from the data gathered from NYRBS, in sexual behavior among youth and young adults from 1991 to 2009.
Vital Signs: Alcohol Poisoning Death
On average, 6 people died every day from alcohol poisoning in the United States from 2010 to 2012. The January 2015 issue of CDC’s Vital Signs illustrates the issue of alcohol poisoning, its deadly consequences, and what can be done to reduce and prevent binge drinking.
WISQARS Mobile: Injury Data Anywhere, Anytime
WISQARS Mobile, an app developed by the CDC, allows users to easily access injury information, including data on motor vehicle–related injuries, prescription drug overdoses, traumatic brain injuries, violence against children and youth, unintentional injury, homicide, and suicide.
Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising on Television — 25 Markets, United States, 2010
Released by the CDC, a new study shows that the alcohol industry has not met regulatory guidelines related to airing alcohol advertising when more than 30% of the audience is younger than the legal drinking age.
Youth@Work: Talking Safety
This curriculum in occupational safety and health can be used in the classroom or other group training sessions. It is designed to teach core health and safety skills and knowledge, and covers basic information relevant to any occupation. The target audience for the curriculum is high school age students; however, much of the material can be used in post-secondary job training environments like apprenticeship programs. The curriculum includes instructions for teachers and a step-by-step guide for presenting the material. The bulk of the curriculum is focused on teaching fundamental principles of occupational safety that young workers can use on their first jobs and carry with them into adulthood
Youth Tobacco Prevention
This resource from the Centers on Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers educational resources and materials, such as videos, tip sheets, and posters related to youth tobacco prevention.
Youth Tobacco Cessation: A Guide for Making Informed Decisions
This document is intended to help organizations decide whether to undertake youth tobacco-use cessation as a specific tobacco control activity. The publication covers topics such as the quality of the evidence base for youth intervention, the importance of conducting a needs assessment for the population your organization serves, and the need to evaluate your chosen intervention.
Youth Tobacco - Research and Prevention
Educational resources and materials on youth tobacco use prevention, such as videos, tip sheets, and posters.
Young Worker Safety and Health
This Workplace Safety & Health Topic from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention provides information for young people on workplace safety and health.
The Dialogue: Environmental Disasters and Resiliency
This issue of The Dialogue (PDF, 18 pages) focuses on environmental disasters and resiliency. Articles address the effects from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and integrating community organizations into resilience trainings, the looming threat of climate change, and culturally competent support and resilience training for 911 telecommunicators.
Vital Signs: Demographic and Substance Use Trends Among Heroin Users — United States, 2002-2013
FDA and CDC analyzed data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health and National Vital Statistics System during 2002-2013 to assess trends in heroin use among demographic and particular substance-using groups. Results show that heroin use has increased significantly across most demographic groups. Results also suggest an increase in heroin abuse or dependence parallels the increase in heroin-related overdose deaths, and reflects heroin use is occurring in the context of broader poly-substance use.
Back to School–Be Prepared!
As “back to school” time gets underway, this blog post provides tips for parents for creating an emergency plan and helping their children be prepared for potential emergencies.
Today’s Heroin Epidemic
The latest issue of CDC’s Vital Signs includes recent data on heroin use in the United States. According to the report, heroin use has increased across the past decade among most demographic groups, with rates doubling among women and more than doubling among non-Hispanic whites. The data also show that nearly all people who reported heroin use also reported using at least one other drug in the past year, and the rate of heroin-related overdose deaths has nearly quadrupled. The report provides recommendations for what the federal government, states, health care providers, and citizens can do to respond to the heroin epidemic.
Perceptions of the U.S. National Tobacco Quitline among Adolescents and Adults: A Qualitative Study, 2012–2013
This purpose of this study was to better understand the knowledge and perception of tobacco quitlines, which provide tobacco users free telephone counseling and cessation services, among adolescents and adults. Professionals can use the results of this study to inform future marketing efforts for quitline services.
Combustible and Smokeless Tobacco Use among High School Athletes — US, 2001–2013
CDC released a study that uses data from the 2001–2013 National Youth Risk Behavior Surveys to better understand the prevalence of combustible and smokeless tobacco use among high school athletes. Results show that current use of any tobacco product significantly declined for all students from 2001 to 2013. Current smokeless tobacco use significantly increased among athletes and did not change among non-athletes. In 2013, compared with non-athletes, athletes had significantly higher odds of being current smokeless tobacco users but significantly lower odds of being current combustible tobacco users.
Report: Frequency of Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students
Researchers from CDC and FDA analyzed data from the 2014 National Youth Tobacco Survey to determine how frequently middle school and high school students in the United States used cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, and smokeless tobacco products. Among current users in high school, frequent use was most prevalent among smokeless tobacco users, followed by cigarette smokers, e-cigarette users, and cigar smokers. Among current users in middle school, frequent use was greatest among smokeless tobacco users, followed by cigarette smokers, cigar smokers, and e-cigarette users. Current use of two or more types of tobacco products was common.
Report: Flavored Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students
Researchers from CDC and FDA analyzed data from the 2014 National Youth Tobacco Survey to determine the prevalence of current use of flavored e-cigarette, hookah tobacco, cigar, pipe tobacco, or smokeless tobacco products, and menthol cigarettes among middle and high school students. An estimated 70% of all current youth tobacco users had used at least one flavored tobacco product in the past 30 days. Among current users, 63.3% used a flavored e-cigarette, 60.6% had used flavored hookah tobacco, and 63.5% had used a flavored cigar.
Reports: Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network
These reports estimate the number of children with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities living in different areas of the United States. New data indicate that 1 in 68 school-aged children are on the autism spectrum, highlighting the importance of services and supports for these children now and as they grow into adolescence and adulthood.
Report: Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2011–2015
This report illustrates the prevalence and trends of current use of seven tobacco products among middle and high school students in the United States between 2011 and 2015. The data show that in 2015, e-cigarettes were the most commonly used tobacco product among this population.
Resource: 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Results
This survey monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults. The 2015 release includes data from the 2015 National YRBS and YRBS data from 37 state and 19 large urban school district.