Unifying Public Health Surveillance: A Scoping Review of Global Use of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.

Purpose: The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is a well-established surveillance tool designed to document the health risk behaviors of youth. However, there is limited insight into the use of the survey outside of the United States. The aim of this scoping review was to assess the global presence and utilization of the YRBS.

Health risk behaviors in a unique population-first ring suburban adolescents.

This study aims to call attention to First Ring suburban communities as a unique and unrecognized population and to characterize health risk behaviors of adolescents within these communities. A risk behavior profile of the First Ring suburbs surrounding a large Midwestern city is presented and compared to the frequency of these behaviors in a national sample. In 2002, a representative sample of 3428 high school students from First Ring suburban communities in an urban county completed the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.