Community Health Needs Assessment •
Cigarette/tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, over the counter, prescription drugs, cocaine, methamphetamine, steroids and injecting illegal substances related behaviors was higher among males than females.
Core measures for the high school students survey revealed: Tobacco Age of onset
Alcohol
Marijuana
13.1 years 13.2 years 13.8 years
Use within the past 30 days
18.2%
36.8%
25.6%
Perception of risk with use
87.5%
62.1%
55.6%
Perception of parental disapproval of use
85.4%
70.1%
83.6%
High School Conclusions: • • •
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Cigarette/tobacco and alcohol-related behavior improved. Marijuana behaviors increased in frequency. Cocaine and inhalant use was down and ecstasy use and injection of illegal substances was up. o 10% had ever used ecstasy (9.0% in 2008-2009) o 5% had ever used a needle to inject any illegal drug into their body (4.7% in 2008-2009) Sexual behaviors were more frequent for males than females. Overall for all high school students: o 53.6% had ever had sexual intercourse (57.8% in 2008-2009) o 24.7% used alcohol or drugs the last time they had sexual intercourse (23.5% in 2008-2009) o 56.4% used a condom the last time they had sexual intercourse (58.7% in 20082009) Thirty-day use of alcohol was higher for males (37.1%) than females (36.3%), but having ever tried alcohol was higher for females (65.8%) than males (64.1%).
Infectious Diseases HIV Infection Prevalence and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections Rate
One of the Healthy People 2020 goals is to “promote healthy sexual behaviors, strengthen community capacity, and increase access to quality services to prevent sexually transmitted diseases in their complications.” Page | 139