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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.
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.
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.
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: School’s Out, But Safety Should Always Be In
This article highlights the ways NIOSH protects young workers and provides links to additional resources related to workplace safety and health.
Report: Global Youth Tobacco Survey
This report uses data from the 45 countries in the Global Youth Tobacco Survey to examine the prevalence of current cigarette smoking, purchase of cigarettes from retail outlets, and type of cigarette purchases made among students, aged 13–15 years.
Resource: Preventing Suicide through a Comprehensive Public Health Approach
This resource provides information on the nature and prevalence of suicide in the United States, advocates for a comprehensive, public health approach to suicide prevention, and highlights multiple promising suicide prevention approaches.
Resource: Current Cigarette Smoking Among U.S. Adults Aged 18 Years and Older
This resource, intended for the public and professionals working in tobacco use prevention and cessation, provides estimates of the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults in the U.S. in 2014. It includes information on the prevalence of cigarette smoking by race/ethnicity, sex, age, education, and poverty status, as well as among specific populations, such as people with disabilities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people; and people with HIV.
Report: Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students — U.S., 2011–2016
This report analyzes data from the 2011–2016 National Youth Tobacco Surveys to determine recent patterns of current use of seven tobacco product types among U.S. middle and high school students. Decreases in cigarette and cigar use during 2011–2016 were offset by increases in hookah and e-cigarette use, resulting in no significant change in any tobacco use. In 2016, e-cigarettes remained the most commonly-used tobacco product among high school and middle school students.
2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Results
These reports present information about the percentages of high school and middle school students who engage in certain risk behaviors, along with the status of school health policies and programs designed to address those behaviors.
2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Results
The 2019 YRBS results present a promising picture for some behaviors and experiences among high school students; however, other areas reveal that teens are still engaging in behaviors that put them at risk. While these health risk behaviors vary by sex, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and grade, the 2019 YRBS results show that there is more work to do to help all teens create lifelong healthy behaviors.
Resource: Program-Level Gainful Employment Earnings Data
This data set provides information on program-level outcomes of college students preparing for gainful employment that can be used by prospective students and their families to weigh their options. Overall, the data show graduates of career training programs at public institutions generally fare better than those of comparable programs at for-profit colleges, earning higher salaries and being more prepared to enter higher earning fields.