Background The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.9 million deaths
worldwide are attributable to physical inactivity and at least 2.6 million deaths are a result of …

This paper reviews 83 studies that measure the impact of curriculum-based sex and HIV
education programs on sexual behavior and mediating factors among youth under 25 years …

Background Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease. Primary interventions should
aim to reduce first use or to prevent the transition from experimental use to addiction. School …

Background Helping young people to avoid starting smoking is a widely endorsed public
health goal, and schools provide a route to communicate with nearly all young people …

This paper reports on a meta-analysis of 207 universal school-based drug prevention
programs that compared the self-reported drug use of treatment to control or comparison …

Background Physical activity among children and adolescents is associated with lower
adiposity, improved cardio‐metabolic health, and improved fitness. Worldwide, fewer than …

Effectiveness of different types of drug prevention programs was examined in a meta-
analysis of 120 school-based programs (5th-12th) that evaluated success on self-reported …

Schools have great potential as a locus for crime prevention. They provide regular access to
students throughout the developmental years, and perhaps the only consistent access to …

In the United States, there exist a multitude of different approaches to reducing adolescent
sexual risk‐taking, unintended pregnancy, childbearing, and sexually transmitted disease …

Background Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease. Primary interventions should be
aimed to reduce first use, or prevent the transition from experimental use to addiction …