Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey - Health Risk Behaviors
March 5, 2014
Results of the 2011 New Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey, a collaborative project of the New Mexico Departments of Health and Public Education, reveal a decrease in the rates of several important health risk behaviors among the state’s public high school students. The prevalence of suicide attempts, cigarette smoking, binge drinking, and physical fighting have decreased significantly in recent years.