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    Overview
    Acronym
    HBSC
    Type of information
    Survey/interview data
    Description

    Health Behaviour in School-aged Children is a WHO collaborative cross-national study which is provideing information about the health, well-being, social environment and health behaviour of 11-, 13- and 15-year-old boys and girls. The data focus on social context (relations with family, peers, school and online communication), health outcomes (subjective health, mental health, overweight and obesity, and injuries), health behaviours (patterns of eating, physical activity and toothbrushing) and risk behaviours (use of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis, sexual behaviour, fighting and bullying) relevant to young people’s health and well-being. New items on family meals, electronic media communication and cyberbullying were introduced to the HBSC survey in 2017/2018 and measures of individual health complaints and underweight are also included for the first time in this report. 

    Free keywords
    children, school
    Topics
    Determinants of health » Individual characteristics and behaviours » Behaviours;
    Health status
    Country(ies):
    GEO coverage
    Nuts 1
    Target Population
    Specific groups
    Sex
    Both
    Language(s)
    Croatian
    Updating Periodicity
    Every 4 years
    Personal Identifier
    Other
    Level of aggregation
    Individual
    Data Owner(s)
    Croatian Institute of Public Health
    Contact name
    Ivana Pavić Šimetin
    Contact e-mail
    ivana.pavic@hzjz.hr
    Contact info (address)

    Croatian Institute of Public Health
    Zagreb, Rockefeller str. 7

    Updated on 11 March 2022