AddHealth seeks to examine how social contexts (families, friends, peers, schools, neighborhoods, and communities) influence adolescents' health and risk behaviors. Initiated in 1994 under a grant ...

The majority of older adolescents in North America are sexually active, yet many do not take appropriate precautions to prevent pregnancy or the spread of sexually transmitted infections.

To understand some of the difficulties inherent in promoting safer sexual practices ... risk or anticipated consequences). Applying this logic to condom usage, it may be that adolescents are ...

On behalf of the Nevada Department of Education and the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health (DPBH), the University of Nevada, Reno's School of Public Health administers the Youth Risk ...

For adults, a diet high in saturated fats and ... exercise and substance use—expected to affect an adolescent's cognitive development and reward-seeking behavior. Previously, researchers ...