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Increase the proportion of college and university students who receive information from their institution on each of the six priority health-risk behavior areas.

Target: 25 percent.

Baseline: 6 percent of undergraduate students received information from their college or university on all six topics in 1995: injuries (intentional and unintentional), tobacco use, alcohol and illicit drug use, sexual behaviors that cause unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, dietary patterns that cause disease, and inadequate physical activity.

Target setting method: Better than the best.

Data source: National College Health Risk Behavior Survey, CDC, NCCDPHP.

Undergraduates, 1995

Received
Information on Six Priority Health-Risk Behavior
Areas

Percent

TOTAL

6

Race and ethnicity

American Indian or Alaska Native

DSU

Asian or Pacific Islander

DSU

Asian

DSU

Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander

DSU

Black or African American

8

White

6

 

Hispanic or Latino

5

Not Hispanic or Latino

DNA

Black or African American

8

White

6

Gender

Female

6

Male

6

Family income level

Poor

DNC

Near Poor

DNC

Middle/high income

DNC

Disability status

Persons with disabilities

DNC

Persons without disabilities

DNC

Sexual orientation

DNC

DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.