Statistics: Adolescence

print only Volume One in the AMA Profiles in Adolescent Health Series. Arranged in question and answer format, with narrative and some graphs and charts. Covers health issues for ages 10-19 including violence, injury and abuse, substance abuse, smoking, abortion, birth rate, sex behavior, sexually transmitted diseases, sexuality, HIV/AIDS, mental health and disorders, chronic disease, health insurance, mortality, homicide, suicide and general physical health. Provides list of figures and boxed inserts, bibliography and index. WS 460 G199a 1990 Health Books

Reports from The POLICY Project on family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), HIV/AIDS, and maternal health; in Africa, Latin American & Caribbean, Europe, Eurasia, Asia & Near East.

web and print A national and state-by-state effort to measure the health and economic, educational, and social well-being of children and adolescents in the United States. The ten indicators used to measure child and adolescent health, education and socioeconomic status: percent low birth weight babies, infant mortality rate, child death rate, rate of teen deaths by accident, homicide and suicide, teen birth rate, juvenile violent crime arrest rate, percent of teens who are high school dropouts, percent of teens not in school nor labor force, teen violent death rate, percent children in poverty, percent children in single families. National profiles followed by individual state profiles, including background information for each state such as demographic and family income data. Appendices include national ranking scores, states in rank order by each of the indicators, multi-year trend data chart for the indicators and multi-year national composite ranks. Maps, tables. HQ 792 U5 K53 Soc Wk Stacks - Annual