Description
Book SynopsisThe "Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS)" is a World Health Organization (WHO) and United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collaborative effort in helping countries to assess ten behavioural risk and protective factors, including "alcohol use, dietary behaviours, drug use, hygiene, mental health, physical activity, protective factors, sexual behaviours, tobacco use, violence and unintentional injury" among adolescents. In this book, we deal with multiple behavioural non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors in 15 countries: Philippines, Mozambique, Laos, Kuwait, Oman, Guatemala, Timor-Leste, Wallis and Futuna, Cook Islands, Afghanistan, Maldives, French Polynesia, Fiji, Bahrain and Benin. The results of the various papers will inform stakeholders of the relevance of school and youth health programmes and related policies targeting behavioural NCD risk factors in the adolescent population.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Behavioural Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases among Adolescents; Behavioural Health Risk Factors among In-School Adolescents in the Philippines; Chronic Disease Behavioural Risk Factors among In-School Adolescents in Mozambique; Co-Occurrence of Non-Communicable Diseases Risk Factors among In-School Adolescents in Laos; Behavioural Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease among In-School Adolescents in Kuwait; Simultaneous Behavioural Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease among In-School Adolescents in Oman; Behavioural Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases among In-School Adolescents in Guatemala; Multiple Behavioural Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases among a Nationally Representative Sample of In-School Adolescents in Timor-Leste; Prevalence and Correlates of Multiple Behavioural Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases among In-School Adolescents in Wallis and Futuna; Multiple Behavioural Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases among In-School Adolescents in Cook Islands; Simultaneous Behavioural Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases among In-School Adolescents in Afghanistan; Multiple Behavioural Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases among In-School Adolescents in Maldives; Correlates of Multiple Behavioural Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases among In-School Adolescents in French Polynesia; Multiple Behavioural Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases among In-School Adolescents in Fiji; Multiple Behavioural Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases among Adolescents Attending Public and Private Schools in Bahrain; Multiple Behavioural Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases among In-School Adolescents in Benin; About the Editors; About the ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Phutthamonthon, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand; About the Department of Research Administration and Development, University of Limpopo, Turfloop, South Africa; About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel; Index.
