Adolescent Health

As they transition from childhood to adulthood, adolescents make choices that affect their current and future health. These choices are often influenced by family members and friends as well as community, school and work environments.

 

Six critical types of adolescent health behavior contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among adults and youth (CDC) :

• Alcohol and drug use
• Injury and violence (including suicide)
• Tobacco use
• Nutrition
• Physical activity
• Sexual behaviors

Task Force Recommendations & Findings

This table lists the intervention reviewed by the Community Guide, with a summary of the Task Force finding (definitions of findings). Click on an underlined intervention title for a summary of the review.

Person-to-person interventions to improve caregivers' parenting skills

Recommended

Related Task Force Recommendations & Findings

Preventing Excessive Alcohol Consumption: Enhanced enforcement of laws prohibiting sales to minors	Recommended
Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: Lower BAC laws for young or inexperienced drivers	Recommended
Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: Maintaining current minimum legal drinking age	Recommended
Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: School-based instructional programs	Recommended
Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: School-based peer organizing interventions	Insufficient Evidence
Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: School-based social norming campaigns	Insufficient Evidence
Preventing Skin Cancer: Education and policy approaches in secondary schools and colleges	Insufficient Evidence
Prevention of HIV/AIDS, other STIs and Pregnancy: Group-based abstinence education interventions for adolescents	Insufficient Evidence
Prevention of HIV/AIDS, other STIs and Pregnancy: Group-based comprehensive risk reduction interventions for adolescents	Recommended
Youth Development Behavioral Interventions: Interventions coordinated with community service to reduce sexual risk behaviors in adolescents	Recommended
Youth Development Behavioral Interventions: Interventions coordinated with sports or club participation to reduce sexual risk behaviors in adolescents	Insufficient Evidence
Youth Development Behavioral Interventions: Interventions coordinated with work or vocational training to reduce sexual risk behaviors in adolescents	Insufficient Evidence
Youth Violence Prevention: Therapeutic foster care to reduce violence for children with severe emotional disturbance	Insufficient Evidence
Youth Violence Prevention: Therapeutic foster care to reduce violence for chronically delinquent juveniles	Recommended
Youth Violence Prevention: Policies facilitating the transfer of juveniles to adult justice systems	Recommended against
Youth Violence Prevention: School-based programs to reduce violence	Recommended

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