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Download full textShanholtzer, Birgit A. – West Virginia Department of Education Office of Research, Accountability, and Data Governance, 2016
This collection of fact sheets includes: (1) Alcohol and Drug Use among High School Students in West Virginia; (2) Bullying and Suicidal among High School Students in West Virginia; (3) Chronic Disease and Health Care Access among High School Students in West Virginia; (4) Dietary Behaviors among High School Students in West Virginia; (5) Injury…
Descriptors: High School Students, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse
West Virginia Department of Education, 2018
This collection of fact sheets includes: (1) Alcohol and Drug Use; (2) Bullying and Suicidal Behaviors; (3) Dietary Behaviors; (4) Disease Prevention and Health Care Access; (5) Injury Risk and Violence; (6) Physical Inactivity; (7) Sexual Behaviors; (8) Tobacco Use; and (9) Weight Management. [For "[West Virginia Youth Risk Behavior/School…
Descriptors: Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Bullying, Suicide
Morrison, Chad – West Virginia Department of Education, 2015
This collection of fact sheets includes: (1) Bullying and Suicidal Behaviors among High School Students in West Virginia; (2) Obesity and Dietary Behaviors among High School Students in West Virginia; (3) Alcohol and Drug Use among High School Students in West Virginia; (4) Injury and Violence among High School Students in West Virginia; (5)…
Descriptors: Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Bullying, Suicide
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Direct linkO'Hanlon, Charlene – T.H.E. Journal, 2007
Plagued by one of the most overweight populaces in the country, the state of West Virginia was looking for a solution to its obesity problem that would appeal to the school-age crowd. It turned to Linda Carson, a professor at West Virginia University's School of Physical Education. Carson recalled witnessing kids lining up in an arcade to play a…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, High Schools, Video Games, Play
Cullen, Bob – Education Next, 2006
Overweight children would not be the first thing a visitor to Grafton, West Virginia, would think of when seeing the small farms that cling to steep hillsides and cultivate the bottomland along the Tygart River as one drives into town. Like most of the state, the landscape around this village nods to pastoral enterprise, suggesting a place where…
Descriptors: Grade 5, State Government, Obesity, Physical Education
