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Health Behavior Research and School and Youth Health Promotion

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Handbook of Health Behavior Research IV

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Adolescents are frequently considered among the healthiest of all Americans, with nearly the lowest mortality rate of all age groups (Coira, Zill, & Bloom, 1994). They also have morbidity rates for chronic medical and psychiatric disorders that are low in comparison to those in the adult population (Gans, 1990). A closer look reveals that morbidity and mortality rates do not adequately portray the health status of most adolescents. A far greater number of American adolescents are threatened by what has been called “social morbidities,” which include unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, homicide, suicide, injuries related to violence, and substance abuse. Adolescents also may develop unhealthful and persistent behavior patterns such as poor dietary intake, low levels of physical activity, and tobacco use. These social morbidities and unhealthful behavior patterns not only threaten adolescents’ current physical health status, but also are linked throughout the life span to adult chronic diseases and ultimately to adult mortality.

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  1. School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, 77225, USA

    Steven H. Kelder

  2. Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712, USA

    Elizabeth W. Edmundson

  3. Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55454-1015, USA

    Leslie A. Lytle

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    David S. Gochman

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Kelder, S.H., Edmundson, E.W., Lytle, L.A. (1997). Health Behavior Research and School and Youth Health Promotion. In: Gochman, D.S. (eds) Handbook of Health Behavior Research IV. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0484-3_14

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