TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1994//
TI  - Health risk behaviors among adolescents who do and do not attend school--United States, 1992
JO  - MMWR: Morbidity and mortality weekly report
A1  - Farchi, Sara
A1  - Molino, Nunzio
A1  - Giorgi Rossi, Paolo
A1  - Borgia, Piero
A1  - Krzyzanowski, Michael
A1  - Dalbokova, Dafina
A1  - Kim, Rokho
A1  - Working Group, ER
SP  - 129
EP  - 132
VL  - 43
IS  - 8
N2  - High proportions of U.S. high school students engage in behaviors that place them at increased risk for the leading causes of death and morbidity (e.g., motor-vehicle crashes and other unintentional injuries, homicide, suicide, heart disease, and cancer), unintended pregnancy, and infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted diseases. Because efforts to measure health-risk behaviors among adolescents throughout the United States have not included those who do not attend school, the prevalences of those behaviors are probably underestimated for the total adolescent population. To characterize more accurately the prevalence of selected health-risk behaviors among adolescents aged 12-19 years who do and do not attend school, CDC analyzed self-reported national data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), conducted as part of the 1992 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). This report summarizes the results of the analysis.
LA  - en
SN  - 0149-2195
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -