Current Research
Adolescent Pregnancy Data
National
Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) is a leader in advancing sexual and reproductive health in the U.S. They provide research, policy analysis, and public education. www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/washington.html
Check out AGI's table maker — an easy step-by-step
way to generate state statistics for a wide array of topics.
www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/tablemaker/index.html?statecenter=nostate
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
seeks to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy by one-third between 2006 and
2015, and reports on teen pregnancy trends.
www.teenpregnancy.org/default.asp
Center For Disease Control (CDC): Youth Risk
Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS )
apps.nccd.cdc.gov/yrbss/
The YRBSS home page provides articles, reports,
fact sheets — as well as detailed information on the YRBSS methods and
questions used in their instruments.
www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/index.htm
National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) involves detailed interviews with a representative sample of women and men in the United States. Their latest survey and results are located at www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm and contains detailed reports as well as brief fact sheets.
Child Trends: Adolescent sexual behavior
www.childtrends.org/_portalcat.cfm
Washington State and Local
Washington State
Center for Health Statistics. This office summarizes data on
abortion and pregnancy rate and birth statistics by race/ethnicity, age,
county.
www.doh.wa.gov/ehsphl/chs/chs-data/main.htm
Washington State Department of Health (DOH), Division of
Community and Family Health is the overarching agency that addresses WA
state's community wellness and prevention, infectious disease and
reproductive health, and maternal and child health.
www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/cfh.htm
Washington State DOH Child and Adolescent Health
website contains Teen Health Fact Sheets on all health topics for use
with general audiences.
www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/mch/cahcp/default.htm
WA DOH's family planning/reproductive health
program provides practical guides on services within the state.
www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/FPRH/default.htm
Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
(PRAMS)— an ongoing mail/telephone survey of women who have
recently given birth. New mothers answer questions
about their behaviors and experiences before, during, and shortly after
pregnancy.
www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/PRAMS/Default.htm
HIV/STD Data
National
The CDC Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention and STD Prevention website offers good starting points for national and state news and information on HIV/STD data — for adolescents and young adults, as well as other populations.
Washington State and Local
Washington Department of Health (DOH) STD program. They issue annual STD reports that include morbidity data and incidence rates by county for Washington State's legally reportable sexually transmitted diseases.
The site also has STD fact sheets on many types of infections (CT, GC, herpes, warts, Hepatitis B, HPV, syphilis, and trichomoniasis).
County profiles.
www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/STD/default.htm
Division of
Community and Family Health is the HIV/AIDS prevention and education
services' statistics page.
www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/HIV_AIDS/Prev_Edu/Statistics.htm