Editorial writers weigh in on these public health topics. Tampa Bay Times: Florida Spurns Youth Survey Without adequate justification, Florida officials have made a poorly timed decision to pull out of a wide-ranging national survey measuring health and behavior risks among the state’s teenagers. The survey polls high school students […]
Teen
Teen mental health crisis needs broad response
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/5AKARHFPORGCFCBFEK4RC6O4TA.jpg)
Children and adolescents in our country are in crisis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a comprehensive survey that chronicled a startling decline in adolescent mental health from 2009 to 2019. According to that report, more than 1 out of every 3 high school students had […]