Multilevel analysis of health risk behaviour in Czech teenagers

Abstrakt

The health risk behaviour of teenagers, especially substance abuse, is one of the most serious problems of today's public health arena. The aim of this paper is to assess the extent of the multiple health-risk behaviours within the teenage population and to analyse the role of the individual and family structure as well as educational and geographic factors in the combination of their risk behaviours (frequency of smoking, alcohol intoxication and lifetime cannabis use).

Klíčová slova

• health risk behaviour
• teenagers
• family and individual factors
• school environment
• municipality characteristics