Obesity, Dietary Behavior, & Physical Activity
Fact Sheets
For the United States overall and for select states and school districts, these fact sheets present information about the percentages of youth who engage in certain risk behaviors, along with the status of school health policies and programs designed to address those behaviors.
United States
The
Childhood Obesity [pdf 159K] fact sheet combines
results from the 2009 national
Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and 2006
School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) to
- Identify the percentage of high school students who are obese, engage in unhealthy dietary behaviors, or are physically inactive
- Describe characteristics of health education, physical education and activity, and the school environment among U.S. high schools that may help address the problem
States, Territories, and Large Urban School
Districts
These fact sheets combine results from the 2009 state,
territorial, and district
YRBS and 2010 state, territorial, and district
School Health Profiles surveys to
- Identify the percentage of high school students who are obese, engage in unhealthy dietary behaviors, or are physically inactive
- Describe state and local characteristics of health education, physical education, opportunities for physical activity, and the school environment among middle and high schools that may help address the problem
Note: The following
links are PDFs and are approximately 100K-300K.
| Territories* | |
| Palau | |
*States, districts, and territories listed above had weighted data for both the 2009 YRBS and 2010 Profiles. This means that for YRBS, the site achieved at least a 60% overall response rate. For Profiles, the site achieved at least a 70% school response rate. With weighted data, it is possible to say, for example, "X% of high school students in our state smoked cigarettes during the past month and X% of middle schools and high schools in our state taught tobacco use prevention education."
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- Division of Adolescent and School Health
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