Susan Court, former YRBS state coordinator and health enhancement specialist at the Montana Office of Public Instruction, explains the importance of CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and how it ...

Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) questions can collect health behavior data from student subgroups in states such as ...

The YRBSS surveys are administered in odd years ... Read more in my latest on the implications of this decision. CDC investigating hospitalizations after a vaccine for chikungunya In other ...

State-level public health workers with knowledge of the YRBSS process told STAT they’d heard the CDC will not support data aggregation on the question if states choose to include them in their ...

Sixteen probationary staff members at the World Trade Center Health Program have been fired as part of the layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Several other full-time ...

emergency mode on Friday – when they became aware that the mysterious, flu-like illness had made its way from the Far East to North America. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson ...

YRBS data from 1991 through 1997 have demonstrated ... to have seriously considered attempting suicide in the last year (CDC 2008). However, significantly more Hispanic youth (12.8%) reported ...