Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter works back from death statistics, to morbidity, to behavioral statistics, and finally to the apparent causes of health problems in adolescents. Society is experiencing a declining population of school children, increasing budgetary constraints, an economy in recession, and a number of specific problems in society for which adolescents are blamed. The mode of inquiry most accessible for policy development examines the health status of today's adolescents and young adults to find not only the proximal causes, but also the more distant etiology of these problems. No single set of data is more revealing of the successes and the failures of the previous ten years of adolescent health than the current health status of young adults. The chapter reviews some indicators of preventable death, disease, and disability in adolescents and young adults aged 15–24. The problem of health-compromising behavior among adolescents in the broadest sense reflects a failure on the part of the culture to prepare children for some of the major developmental tasks of adolescence.
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