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- 07-01 Youth Health and Wellness in Alameda County - an overview of the health status of youth and young adults, ages 10-24'.
- 07-01 Changing Gender Norms among Young Men in Mumbai Slums'
- 07-01 'Breakdown Britain',
- 07-01 Taiwan youths dressing down to assert their identity
- 07-01 Smoking cessation among US adolescent smokers is relatively rare.
- 07-01 'Sexuality education in Europe
- 07-01 'The extent to which tobacco marketing and tobacco use in films
- 07-01 A study in 'Pediatrics' confirms US adolescents with eating disorders are frequent visitors of pro-eating disorder Web sites, which may promote dangerous behaviors -
- 07-01 Use of Cessation Methods Among Smokers Aged 16--24 Years
- 07-01 33% of 16 to 24 years regularly participate in sport and active recreation in England.
- 07-01 Teenagers resist the urge to tan
- 06-12 Lots of interest and activity in the new SHEU online healthy college survey for 6th Form and FE Colleges.
- 06-12 A new UK study summarises key qualitative findings that help in understanding young people's sexual behaviour and why they might have unsafe sex.
- 06-12 Campaigns on young people's weight are missing the point, says researcher at the University of Bath
- 06-12 Welcome to the Student Health and Wellbeing web site from Oxford Brookes University.
- 06-12 According to a new 2006 report on the Aids epidemic - South Africa's 15-year olds have a 56 percent chance of dying before turning 60. In 1996 the same age group had a 29 percent chance of dying before turning 60.
- 06-12 Not new research...but data that I always enjoy in the run up to Christmas --
- 06-12 Free software programs from the Healthy Student Software Collection.
- 06-12 Commentators fear that British youth are on the verge of mental breakdown, at risk from antisocial behaviour, self-harm, drug and alcohol abuse.'
- 06-12 A US glossy publication 'The Healthy Student - A Parent's Guide to Preparing Teens for the College Years'
- 06-11 UK research reveals that people who complete an apprenticeship earn more money, stay longer with their employer and are more likely to rise to a management job than those who don't
- 06-11 Data from the China national surveys
- 06-11 SHEU sponsor healthy settings - 6th Forms and FE Colleges offered online questionnaire service at no cost... it's not too late to get involved
- 06-11 USA - An evaluation of an abstinence-only sex education curriculum: An 18-month follow-up
- 06-11 Even in China's most Westernized and rapidly ageing city, young people still follow the traditional family model of caring for their elderly parents
- 06-11 New Zealand Association for Adolescent Health and Development weekly e updates
- 06-11 UK teenage pregnancy information resource
- 06-11 A bill raising the drinking age back to 20 has been given the go ahead by a committee of New Zealand MPs
- 06-11 USA - Five years of abstinence-only-until-marriage education: Assessing the impact
- 06-11 'Cannabis: a drug more dangerous than heroin' from Glasgow's 'The Herald' newspaper
- 06-11 Launch of new UK specialist library for Ethnicity & Health
- 06-11 A new New Zealand DVD has been launched - to educate young people on the dangers of 'P' (methamphetamine) - includes video clip
- 06-10 UK Minister calls for success on teenage pregnancy to be replicated nationwide e.g. the under 18-conception rate in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has fallen by 42.2% between 1998 and 2004.
- 06-10 How US adolescent girls interpret weight-loss advertising
- 06-10 Current illicit drug use among US youth aged 12-17 continues to decline
- 06-10 Interventions to prevent accidental injury to young people aged 15 - 24: Evidence briefing - Road interventions such as raising the legal drinking age from 18 to 21... have been shown to be successful.
- 06-10 If drug prevention in UK schools is ineffectual, as the ACMD's new report suggests (see 2nd web link),
- 06-10 California's unprecedented investment in teenage pregnancy prevention has contributed to its achievement over the last decade of the largest decline in teenage birth rates of all America's fifty states.
- 06-10 Even the most observant US parent are oblivious
- 06-10 Many US college students may be left ill-informed about safer sex and more at risk for sexually transmitted infections according to a new survey from Trojan® brand condoms
- 06-10 Planned' teenage pregnancy: Views and experiences of young people. Education and Health 2006. 24:3, 35-38.
- 06-09 A survey of 1,373 16-18 year olds across England found that many teenagers put condoms on after starting sex or take them off before it's over -- thus risking sexually transmitted diseases.
- 06-09 An approach to reduce unsafe drinking and other harmful behaviours among US college students may be similarly effective among high school students,
- 06-09 Data from the China national surveys showed that the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children aged 7-18 years increased 28 times and obesity increased four times between 1985 and 2000 a trend that was particularly marked in boys.
- 06-09 Mission-On healthy lifestyles package for young Kiwis
- 06-09 Around 30,000 16-24 year olds were involved in an online survey for MTV's Bare All survey, a joint initiative with Radio 1, 1Xtra and Durex and is labelled the 'largest youth sex survey ever conducted in the UK.'
- 06-09 USA - Organized activity participation, positive youth development, and the over-scheduling hypothesis
- 06-09 Launch of UK teenager friendly health services.
- 06-09 An increasing number of Chinese students
- 06-09 Alvin Rosenfeld comments on above