State Demonstration: Comprehensive School Health Programs to Prevent Important Health Problems and Improve Educational Outcome (U86)

In cooperation with State education agencies of the States with specified high total mortality rates, to strengthen the capacity of those States to plan, implement, and evaluate effective comprehensive school health programs to prevent important health-risk behavior among youth, including: tobacco use; dietary patterns that contribute to disease; sedentary lifestyle; STDs and unintended pregnancy; alcohol and other drug use; behaviors that result unintentional and intentional injuries, and other behaviors or conditions that are leading causes of death and disability. The U87 code is to be used for aspects of the demonstration project that deal with HIV infection. (PHS Act, S.301a, 311b, and 317K0)

Alert: No NIH awards using this activity code have been made for five or more years.