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SHPPS: School Health Policies and Programs Study

The School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and practices at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. SHPPS was most recently conducted in 2006. SHPPS also was conducted in 2000 and 1994; the next SHPPS is planned for 2012.

Fact Sheets Overview [pdf 250K] Background information on SHPPS 2006, including purpose and study components Changes Between 2000 and 2006 [pdf 217K] Overview of changes between 2000 and 2006 Topic and Component Specific Fact sheets on specific topics and school health program components Student Behaviors and School Policies and Practices National fact sheets on childhood obesity, the HIV epidemic, tobacco-use, and violence prevention that combine YRBS data with School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) data     Comprehensive Results Journal of School Health Overview, methods, and component-specific articles including health education, physical education and activity, health services, mental health and social services, nutrition services and foods and beverages available at school, healthy and safe school environment, physical school environment, faculty and staff health promotion, and family and community involvement in schools State-level Summaries State-level results presented across states by school health program component State Report Cards Results for each state presented by school health program component   Publications, Data Files, and Archives SHPPS Publications 1994-2000 Results from SHPPS 2000 and SHPPS 1994 including results and fact sheets 2006 Data Files & Documentation Data files in SAS, SPSS, and Access for SHPPS 2006 and the associated documentation, including codebooks for SHPPS 2006 1994-2000 Data Files & Documentation Data files in SAS, SPSS, and Access for SHPPS 2006 and the associated documentation, including codebooks for SHPPS 1994 and 2000 Archives Results from SHPPS 2000 and SHPPS 1994 including questionnaires     General Information SHPPS in Brief Background information on SHPPS including purposes and uses for the data Questionnaires Questionnaires used for SHPPS 2006 Podcasts Overview - listen Physical Education and Physical Activity - listen Healthy Eating - listen Tobacco - listen   *Documents on this page are available in Portable Document Format (PDF). Learn more about viewing and printing these documents with Acrobat Reader.

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Page last reviewed: August 27, 2007
Page last modified: September 09, 2008
Content source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adolescent and School Health

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