Please go to this website: www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/data/index.htm .
You will find so many different graphs and statistics about a whole host of youth issues. Select one that interests you and write a paragraph about what the data tell you as well as what it means to you.
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a serious public health problem because it affects socialization skills and school performance. I know several people with children with ADHD. According to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic & Statistical Manual-IV-TR estimates that 3%-7% of children suffer from ADHD. These statistics are alarming especially since I have 3 small grandchildren. The CDC acknowledges more research needs to be done. I hope in the near further more research and intervention will be done to try to combat this problem
ReplyDeleteI was looking through many of the links and I found some shocking suicide information on the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report June 6, 2008. During the 12 months before the survey, 11.3% of students nationwide had made a plan about how they would attempt suicide and 2.0% of students nationwide had made a suicide attempt that resulted in an injury, poisoning, or an overdose that had to be treated by a doctor or nurse. Unfortunately, I really wasn't surprised with those numbers but I was surprised to know that more of the students that planned attempts were girls. I thought it was pretty sad that 2% of students had to get treated for suicide attempts but there are probably many more that no one knows about.
ReplyDeleteI looked thru alot of the different stats but i found the ones about HIV to be interesting. they talked about the differnt % of different states and how the rate is growing higher and higher in young and african a,ericans. then i took a look at the amout of HIV awareness and sex education classes provided in these same areas i dont know if its just me but i mean do the people understand that something isnt working? maybe they need to try different ways to educate the children they just arent getting it
ReplyDeleteI chose the study on asthma because I have suffered with asthma for a little over 13years and still do to this day. It is also very prevalent in my family. My mother, youngest brother and daughter all have asthma as well. So it was particularly important for me to learn more about this disease. I was particularly surprised to learn that over 12.8 million days of school were missed due to asthma related illnesses. Asthma is the leading chronic illness in children under 15! But it also stated that Hispanics suffer from asthma n more than any other ethnicity followed by African-Americans. This is said to be caused by inner-city communities.
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ReplyDeleteI had no idea that asthma is a leading chronic illness among children and youth in the United States. It surprised me when I read that low-income populations, minorities, and children living in inner cities have more emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and deaths due to asthma than the general population. $3.2 billion per year is the estimated cost of treating asthma in those under 18. The article I read also had a table breaking down the Percentage of Secondary Schools that Implemented
ReplyDeleteSchool-based Asthma Management Activities; It actually connected me to what we’ve been doing in class because the results were given n range and also y the median percentage. I chose this article b/c as a child I had asthma but eventually gained knowledge of how to control it.
The graph that I’m reporting on is a youth risk behavior survey. It has data on the percentage of students in DC that used marijuana one or more times during the 30 days before the survey. The graph gave the percentages for the years 1993; 97; 99; 2003; 2005; 2007. I picked the graph that did not show variance. The graph gave the total for those years and it also broke it down by gender. Some of the results that were on the graph did surprise me. The number one thing was surprising to me was that more teen were using marijuana in 1997 (29.3%); 1999 (25.7%); and 2000 (23.5%) then in 2007 (20.8). The data also shows that for all years more males smokes then females. For most of the years male usually smoked more than female by at least 5% except for in 2003 when it was on one percent difference. The highest amount of males smoked in 1997 (33.5%). The highest number of females smoked also in 1997 (25.6%). For 2007 20.8 was the total percentage of student that used during the time period, 19% of females smoke and 22.6% of males smoked.
ReplyDeleteI caught my eye on the topic of tobacoo use by young people. Each day in the United States, approximately 4,000 adolescents aged 12-17 try their first cigarette. Cigarette smoking causes heart disease, stroke, chronic lung disease, and cancers of the lung, mouth, pharynx, esophagus, and bladder. And also Secondhand smoke exposure during childhood and adolescence may contribute to new cases of asthma or worsen existing asthma. The prevalence of current cigarette use among High School Students are 14.9% black male, 8.4% black female, Hispanic 18.7% male, 14.6% female,23.8% white male, and 22.5% white female. So as I conclude, there is a greater % of white male and female students in high school that smoke tobacoo. I was around smoke nearly all my life until I was 17 and now when I talk to much or too loud I loose my voice. Secondhand smoke is the worst.
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ReplyDeleteThe study i did discussed the leading cause of death and disability for people ages 1 to 44 years. Approximatly 72% of all deaths among adolescents aged 10-24 are attributed to injuries from only four causes:motor vehicle crashes(30%),unintentional injuries (15) homicide(15%)suicide(12%). Adolescents behavior plays a role in in the number of injuries occurring. In 2007, 36% of high school students had been in a physical fight in the past 12 months, 18% had carried a weapon in the past 30 days. The reality of knowing Statistic just hit me in the head, knowing how many children are walking around with guns,if i calculated correctly 5.55 kids are walking around Millbrook, Wakefield, Garner ,Sanderson high with a gun in their possession. That doesn't sound like a lot but if all 5 happen to get in a fight at the same time in the same area who is going to pull first and how many kids will get hurt?
I had a hard time navigating the site, so I chose to view a study on The HIV epidemic and North Carolina students. This study was based on North Carolina middle and high school students and had some shocking statistics. Over 52% of these students have had sexual intercourse, with 8% doing it for the first time before the age of 13. 16% of those who were sexually active (37% total) have had over 4 partners. 38% of those students reported that they did not use a condom during their last sexual intercourse. While North Carolina schools have policies in place to keep HIV infected students from being discriminated against, 81% of all these students reported that abstinence is still the number one way of prevention.If over half of these students are already sexually active, it seems like the school systems would step up and teach in depth more methods of prevention to those students who are interested. Even an elective course would help.This means that I will have to teach my daughter a lot about sex, because I'm sure that as the years go on, the number of students who have sex before 13 will rise to more than 8%.
ReplyDeleteIn the seventh grade I was diagnosed with a disease called Osgood-Schlatter's Disease. This is a disease that occurs in youth athletes, causing bone protrusion below the knee making the knee become inflamed, painful, and swollen. When looking on the CDC website I came across, Childhood Arhtritis and because I suffered from a common form of it I wanted to read more about it. Three types of Childhood Arhtritis are, 1)juvenile rheumatoid arhtritis, 2)juvenile chronic arthritis, and 3)juvenile idiopathic arthritis. These arthritises occur in people younger than 16 and account for 827,000 doctor visits in a year.
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ReplyDeleteI chose the topic on health and academics. the research showed a connection between students that engaged in unhealthy behavior such as, engaging in sex, drugs,carrying a weapon, poor dietary habits, and excessive television use seemed to be connected to poor grades. the research showed that there was a relation to the two but it did not determine what affected the other(did grades influence health habits or did health habits influence the grades or both?). despite the further research needed, it highly showed a trend of grades to health.
ReplyDeleteI read through a few articles about the youth today. The number of smokers from ages 12-17 concerned me. It has been reported that there are over 4,000 adolescents and teens that smoke. Everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, lung disease, and problems with your bladder, OR so I thought. Secondhand smoke is know better, it causes asthma and other respitory issues. This concerns me because I have cousins that age.
ReplyDeleteI was struck by the amount of young teens who are thinking and considering suicide. So I looked further into that subject bracket on the website and I found a graph that showed the percentage of states, schools, and districts that required its staff to teach about suicide prevention. This was new to me because in my particular school they did not even elude to informing us about suicide, not even in Health class. But to my understanding the bar graph revealed that: when it comes to states at the elementary level 44 percent did, districts on the same level was 33.6 percent, and finally schools in general had 25.5 percent. I believe this is important becuase according to other graphs along the same subject this might be critical to saving some young depressed teens lives.
ReplyDeleteViolence prevention and United States Students the problem is in 2007 the national youth risk behavior survey indicates that among U.S. High school students Weapons 18% had carried weapons such as guns, knives, or club. 5% carried a gun. 6% carried a weapon, such as a gun, knife, or club, on school property. 8% had been threatened or injured with a weapon. Physical Violence 36% were in a physical fight. 4% were injured in a physical fight and had to be treated by a doctor or nurse. 12% were in a physical fight on school property. 10% were hit, slapped, or physically hurt on purpose by their boyfriend or girlfriend. Security 6% did not go to school because they felt unsafe at school or on their way to or from school. 27% had property, such as a car, clothing, or books, stolen or deliberately damaged on school property. Better health education for students, more violence prevention programs for students, and a healthier school environments
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