PRESS RELEASE for June 4, 2008
Nation's High School Students Showing Overall Improvements
in Health-Related Behaviors
However, Hispanic Students Not Showing Progress in Some Key Areas
Today's high school students are less likely to engage in many health risk behaviors than high school students in the early 1990s, according to the 2007 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Although the study documents substantial improvements over time in many health risk behaviors among all high school students, Hispanic students remain at greater risk for certain health related behaviors and have not matched the progress made over time by black students and white students in reducing some sexual risk behaviors.
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