"Unhealthy, unhappy and with no self-esteem: British teenagers lag behind world's young"

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=528048

The World Health Organisation (WHO) study of more than 150,000 young people in 35 countries found that the physical and mental health of children in the UK is more like that of poverty-stricken former communist nations than our western European neighbours.

Teenagers in England in particular but also their counterparts in Scotland and Wales, have some of the highest rates of drinking, smoking, drug use and underage sex - and the lowest levels of life satisfaction, fruit consumption and feelings of physical well-being.

The WHO survey on Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) is conducted every four years and interviews 11, 13 and 15-year-olds from the United States, Canada and nearly all eastern and western European countries.

It is the largest international study of adolescent attitudes and provides an intriguing - and worrying - snapshot into the lives of British teenagers compared with their peers across the world.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Eat more fruit

― Plaster Penguin, Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

This means there will be more Goth Rock in tha '09

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

This explains most of the threads on ILE then.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Good group to do the survey. "I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth" etc etc

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe this shows that the countries that are best able to blend communism and capitalism are the healthiest societies, as compared to the extremes at either end. I hope not because I am bad at ambiguity.

― some guy, Saturday, 5 June 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the physical and mental health of children in the UK is more like that of poverty-stricken former communist nations than our western European neighbours.

Dave Q to thread

― fcussen (Burger), Saturday, 5 June 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe this shows that the countries that are best able to blend communism and capitalism are the healthiest societies, as compared to the extremes at either end

Critique of the Gotha Programme to thread

― fcussen (Burger), Saturday, 5 June 2004 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, if the prime minister is supposed to be of the Labour party and goes along with an empire-building, war-mongering insane president of another unnamed country, I'd be a little depressed, too.

Looking forward to more Goth rock in '09.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 5 June 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

well my favorite band is wrapping up ten years and, via my ex-now-current, apparently would prefer to do so without me.

if my supposed "man" can't deal with my lack of esteem therein and the events that happen after . . .well why do I care anymore?

I stopped exisiting a long time ago.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 5 June 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

...the countries that are best able to blend communism and capitalism ...

some examples please, some guy!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 5 June 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

there is no possible, fucking way, that British youth could lag behind the kids I teach in this area. Sorry, not happening.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 5 June 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

for number one, UK youth have a promise of education. For number two, they have national health care. So yeah. . .

NEXT!!!!

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 5 June 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Hard to argue with you, there.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 5 June 2004 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

...highest rates of drinking, smoking, drug use and underage sex - and the lowest levels of life satisfaction...

I can make no sense of that at all.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 5 June 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's the answer:

MARGARET THATCHER

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 5 June 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

martin OTM

― the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsound), Saturday, 5 June 2004 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

going to scholl doesn't mean you learn necassarily, it can mean that you learn how to fight, throw things at teachers or sit there meekly in a situation where it's impossible to learn anything. healthcare, i will concede, is provided.

― matthew james (matthew james), Saturday, 5 June 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Communism and Capitalism=Socialism? The survey said that kids in Holland and Sweden did well, and from what I know those countries seem to do well at providing health care and spreading wealth.

― Sengai, Saturday, 5 June 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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