Child Behaviour and Risks

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Children's well-being include aspects of behaviour that are of concern both to themselves and to the communities in which they live. While the reasons for children and young people abusing drugs, living unhealthy lifestyles, or becoming pregnant at too early an age may be manyfold, they usually reflect circumstances, pressures, and self-perceptions that undermine well-being.^[1]

Indicators of Child Behaviour and Risks

UNICEF Child-Wellbeing measure

• Health behaviours
  • Children eating breakfast
  • Children eating fruit daily
  • Children that are physically active
  • Children being overweight
• Risk behaviours
  • 15 year-olds smoking
  • 15 year-olds having been drunk more than twice
  • 15 year-olds using cannabis
  • 15 year-olds having sex
  • Using condoms
  • Teenage fertility rate
• Experience of violence
  • 11, 13 and 15 year-olds involved in fighting in last 12 months
  • Reporting being bullied in last 2 months

This list is not extensive and the use of these indicators may be limited by data availability and quality.

See also

Child well-being

Child Mental Health
UNICEF Child-Wellbeing measure

References

1. ↑ http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/rc7_eng.pdf