Health-Risk Behaviors Among High School Athletes and Preventive Services Provided During Sports Physicals
Source: National Institutes of Health
Date Published: 2016
Description
Sports physicals present opportunities for health care providers to identify and discuss common adolescent health-risk behaviors. This study examines the prevalence of health-risk behaviors among high school athletes, and the proportion of providers who address these behaviors during physicals.
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