Other 'What Works' Topics
Adolescent Health and Safety
By Juliet L. Hatcher, M.P.H., and Juliet Scarpa
TABLE 1 TABLE 2 TABLE 3 TABLE 4 TABLE 5 TABLE 6 TABLE 7
Tobacco Use Physical Activity and Nutrition Sleep Dental Health Unintentional Injuries: Motor Vehicles Unintentional Injuries: Bicycles Occupational Injuries
Adolescent Health and Safety

  Experimental Research Studies Non-Experimental Research Studies
Physical Activity and Nutrition
- Multi-component, school-based programs designed to promote cardiovascular health through school environmental changes (e.g. training of PE teachers and food service personnel, and modification of PE curriculum and content of school meals), and classroom curricula that addresses psychosocial factors and behavioral skills relevant to physical activity, nutrition, and other components of cardiovascular health.

- Simply conveying health information in an attempt to increase knowledge.

 

Individual Level
-Enhance perceived ability to be physically active (self-efficacy).

- Assist adolescents in setting and working toward a specific behavior-change goals.


DOWNLOAD/PRINT

Return to What Works in Youth Development Main Page