Health and Fitness

Campus Progress: Survey Shows Need for Better Teen Sex Ed

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2011.  Campus Progress reports about a recent study done by the Cook County Department of Public Health that surveyed 1,718 students at 20 suburban public high schools about health issues. The data released reinforces a need for a comprehensive sexual health education program in Illinois that, in addition to stressing abstinence, teaches medically accurate and age-appropriate information about sexual health.

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Responses indicated that 37 percent of teens have had sex—61 percent of…

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