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    • Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)

    Metadata Updated: December 3, 2020

    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.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    References

    http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr6201.pdf

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date December 3, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 3, 2020
    Modified 2013-01-01

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from HHS CAS JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 3, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 3, 2020
    Publisher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Maintainer
    Identifier 1d615c07-1847-4fc6-bee6-326fe46b9b33
    Modified 2013-01-01
    Theme Children's Health, Epidemiology, Population Statistics
    Accesslevel public
    Bureaucode 009:20
    Dataquality True
    Harvest Object Id 0d6e25c4-9e9b-43ba-8246-73a230d77f93
    Harvest Source Id 4ab0b426-459f-4f58-bb90-12da01e6694a
    Harvest Source Title HHS CAS JSON
    Landingpage http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/data/index.htm
    Programcode 009:000
    References http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr6201.pdf
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 3c03c923b929b19b569157e5d3d12cfcaa70ae5e
    Source Schema Version 1.0
    Spatial United States
    Temporal 1991-01-01/1991-01-01

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