Youth are more responsible for their personal care and decision making. Long gone are the days when a caregiver was responsible for the basics of health such as bathing, good nutrition and proper rest. For the present time, a teen is feeling basically healthy and the threat of being sixty years old with heart disease or cancer is hard to sell as reason for choosing healthy behaviors now. M.D. The content of school health curriculums offers another challenge in the scope of teen health issues. The greatest reason being that personal health choices are exactly that, personal.
Values come into play when educators are challenged for example to teach reproductive health.
Basic anatomy and physiology is not controversial however, sexual activity and birth control is. However, there was little doubt that many Marquette County youth experience violence on a regular basis. Recommendations offered as a result of the assessment can have a positive impact on a broad range of adolescence health issues. An example is the many Project Graduation events that offer safe celebration opportunities. These efforts need to be sustained and healthy behaviors modeled by adults year round.