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    • Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)

    Metadata Updated: July 26, 2023

    The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors 6 types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults, including: behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence; sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV infection; alcohol and other drug use; tobacco use; unhealthy dietary behaviors; inadequate physical activity. YRBSS also measures the prevalence of obesity and asthma among youth and young adults. YRBSS includes a national school-based survey conducted by CDC and state, territorial, tribal, and local surveys conducted by state, territorial, and local education and health agencies and tribal governments.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 26, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 26, 2023
    Publisher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health & Human Services
    Maintainer
    Identifier 83a48652-f4c3-4d9c-8f04-3e59b6a50878
    Data First Published 2013-05-01
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-26
    Category Health, National
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:20
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 2d7da5c3-7304-4c61-ac29-9897b0d5990c
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/dataset/youth-risk-behavior-surveillance-system-yrbss
    License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
    Program Code 009:027
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c3fef213a7602f827f39126fb32298e0ad544890
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 1991-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/1991-01-01T00:00:00-05:00

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