7-2.
Increase the proportion of middle, junior high, and senior high schools that provide school health education to prevent health problems in the following areas: unintentional injury; violence; suicide; tobacco use and addiction; alcohol and other drug use; unintended pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and STD infection; unhealthy dietary patterns; inadequate physical activity; and environmental health.
7-2b. Unintentional injury.
Operational Definition
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National Data Source:
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School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS), CDC, NCCDPHP.
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State Data Source:
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School Health Education Profiles (SHEPS), CDC, NCCDPHP.
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Healthy People 2000 Objective:
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Adapted from 8.4 (Educational and Community-Based Programs).
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Measure:
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Percent.
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Baseline:
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66 (1994).
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Numerator:
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Number of middle, junior, and senior high schools that provide health education on all key behavior and content areas.
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Denominator:
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Number of middle, junior, and senior high schools.
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Population Targeted:
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Middle, junior, and senior high schools.
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Questions Used To Obtain the National Data:
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From the 1994 School Health Policies and Programs Study:
- Now I’d like to ask which health education topics are taught in any of the required courses that we’ve listed. Please give me the numbers of the topics your school teaches at some time in required courses.
1. None of these topics
2. Alcohol and other drug use prevention
3. Conflict resolution/violence prevention
4. Dietary behaviors and nutrition
5. Environmental health
6. HIV prevention
7. Injury prevention and safety
8. Physical activity and fitness
9. Pregnancy prevention
10. Sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention
11. Suicide prevention
12. Tobacco use prevention
13. Other (List additional topics here): __________
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Expected Periodicity:
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Perodic.
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Comments:
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A school is considered to provide health education on key risk behavior and content areas if they report having a required course on injury prevention and safety.
This objective is adapted from a measure in Healthy People 2000 objective 8.4, which tracked the proportion of elementary and secondary schools that included instruction in six key behavioral areas (unintentional and intentional injury, tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, sexual behaviors, unhealthy dietary behaviors, physical inactivity) in their health education program. The 2010 measure tracks middle, junior, and senior high schools: it excludes elementary schools. The 2010 measure also includes environmental health.
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