TEEN COMMUNITY HEALTH COALITION:eradicate health disparities

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SEX: 70% of High School students are sexually active. 40% of Jr High Kids.

Most young girls, report that they were from fatherless homes. 80% of these youth become Teen Parents. 

Sexually transmitted infections can be spread during many kinds of sexual activity: like oral sex, anal sex, vaginal sex, and skin-to-skin genital touching (AKA) as dry humping without clothes!

Alcohol  is the culprit  of 90% of driving fatalities.  99.% of all college students have experience drinking before  graduating. 70% of college rapes, have proven alcohol was in their blood system.

More adolescents drink alcohol than smoke cigarettes or use marijuana.

Adolescents who drink alcohol are more likely to experience a range of negative outcomes.

AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

AIDS can develop within, 10 years after the person contracts an HIV infection, as research shows it takes this amount of time for HIV to kill the healing cells, needed for the immune system, which allows, AIDS to develop in ones body, why it is important for teens to eat healthy because a weak immune system from malnourishment or other illness can develop AIDS quicker .  This educational  piece is to reduce the transmission, in our high-risk populations. PROTECT yourself sexually!

Type 1 , also called  Juvenile Diabetes

This typically appears in adolescence, & 

when one is in a  chronic condition,  their pancreas produces little or no insulin.Treatment aims at maintaining normal blood sugar levels through regular monitoring, insulin therapy, diet, and exercise.

Some of the Syptoms are:

.increased thirst

.frequent urination

.blurred vision

.extreme hunger & weight lost

.fatigue and weakness

EAT BETTER..prepare better!

50%+-, of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.

43% have used marijuana & 15 % of 8th graders

Over 60%  state, drugs,kept, sold, and used at their school

64% prescription pain killers,  they got from a friend or family member.

28%  know 1 person who has tried ecstasv , 5%  Sr, have used cocaine

There are More teens dying from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine & heroin combined.

4.9 million middle and high school students were current tobacco users in 2018.1Although tobacco use by adolescents has declined substantially in the last 40 years, in 2018, less than one in 25 high school seniors was a daily smoker, but vaporing has grown to a major concern.

Smoking rates are typically higher in nonmetropolitan areas, and in the Southern and Midwestern regions of the country.

Adolescents and tobacco use, documented studies, show each day over 3200, youth aged 18 years and younger smoke their first cigarette, and additional 2100 youth and young adults become daily smokers. 

Although AfricanAmericans start smoking later than others, they are more likly to  die from smoking-related disease than whites