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

Person-to-Person Interventions to Improve Caregivers' Parenting Skills

Recommended October 2007

Related Task Force Recommendations & Findings

Preventing Excessive Alcohol Consumption: Enhanced Enforcement of Laws Prohibiting Sales to Minors	Recommended February 2006
Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: Lower BAC Laws for Young or Inexperienced Drivers	Recommended June 2000
Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: Maintaining Current Minimum Legal Drinking Age	Recommended August 2000
Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: School-Based Instructional Programs	Recommended October 2003
Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: School-Based Peer Organizing Interventions	Insufficient Evidence October 2003
Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: School-Based Social Norming Campaigns	Insufficient Evidence October 2003
Preventing Skin Cancer: Education and Policy Approaches in Secondary Schools and Colleges	Insufficient Evidence February 2002
Emergency Preparedness and Response: School Dismissals to Reduce Transmission of Pandemic Influenza	Recommended August 2012
Prevention of HIV/AIDS, other STIs and Pregnancy: Group-Based Abstinence Education Interventions for Adolescents	Insufficient Evidence June 2009
Prevention of HIV/AIDS, other STIs and Pregnancy: Group-Based Comprehensive Risk Reduction Interventions for Adolescents	Recommended June 2009
Youth Development Behavioral Interventions: Interventions Coordinated with Community Service to Reduce Sexual Risk Behaviors in Adolescents	Recommended October 2007
Youth Development Behavioral Interventions: Interventions Coordinated with Sports or Club Participation to Reduce Sexual Risk Behaviors in Adolescents	Insufficient Evidence April 2008
Youth Development Behavioral Interventions: Interventions Coordinated with Work or Vocational Training to Reduce Sexual Risk Behaviors in Adolescents	Insufficient Evidence April 2008
Obesity Prevention and Control: Behavioral Interventions to Reduce Screen Time	Recommended January 2008
Obesity Prevention and Control: Mass Media Interventions to Reduce Screen Time	Insufficient Evidence January 2008
Obesity Prevention and Control: School-Based Programs	Insufficient Evidence October 2003
Campaigns and Informational Approaches to Increase Physical Activity: Classroom-Based Health Education Focused on Providing Information	Insufficient Evidence October 2000
Behavioral and Social Approaches to Increase Physical Activity: Enhanced School-Based Physical Education	Recommended October 2000
Behavioral and Social Approaches to Increase Physical Activity: Classroom-Based Health Education to Reduce TV Viewing and Video Game Playing	Insufficient Evidence October 2000
Restricting Minors' Access to Tobacco Products: Community Mobilization with Additional Interventions	Recommended June 2001
Violence Prevention: Therapeutic Foster Care to Reduce Violence for Children with Severe Emotional Disturbance	Insufficient Evidence June 2002
Violence Prevention: Therapeutic Foster Care to Reduce Violence for Chronically Delinquent Juveniles	Recommended June 2002
Violence Prevention: Policies Facilitating the Transfer of Juveniles to Adult Justice Systems	Recommended Against April 2003
Violence Prevention: School-Based Programs to Reduce Violence	Recommended June 2005

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