Sexualidad

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Surveillance Summaries / Vol. 60 / No. 7 June 10, 2011

Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Risk Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9–12 — Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, Selected Sites, United States, 2001–2009

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Surveillance SummariesCONTENTS
Introduction ............................................................................................................2 Methods....................................................................................................................2 Results .......................................................................................................................5 Discussion............................................................................................................. 43 Conclusion ............................................................................................................ 49 References............................................................................................................. 50 Tables...................................................................................................................... 51

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Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Risk Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9–12 — Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, Selected Sites, United States, 2001–2009
Laura Kann, PhD Emily O’Malley Olsen, MSPH Tim McManus, MS Steve Kinchen David Chyen, MS William A. Harris, MM Howell Wechsler, EdD Division of Adolescent and School Health, National Center for ChronicDisease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC

Abstract
Problem: Sexual minority youths are youths who identify themselves as gay or lesbian, bisexual, or unsure of their sexual identity or youths who have only had sexual contact with persons of the same sex or with both sexes. Population-based data on the healthrisk behaviors practiced by sexual minority youths are needed at the state and...