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Summary
College life involves excitement, along with new challenges, risks, and responsibilities. You are meeting new people, learning new things, and making your own decisions. It can sometimes be stressful. You have to deal with pressures related to food, drink, appearance, drugs, and sexual activity.
There are steps you can take to stay healthy and safe while you're in college:
- Eat a balanced diet
- Get enough sleep
- Get regular physical activity
- Maintain your health with checkups and vaccinations
- If you decide to have sex, practice safe sex
- Make smart choices about alcohol and drugs
- Get help if you are stressed or depressed
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Prevention and Risk Factors
- Vaccines for Your Children: Protect Your Child at Every Age (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Related Issues
- College Health: Health Services and Common Health Problems (Children's Hospital Boston)
- College Students with ADHD (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
- Getting Exercise in College (Nemours Foundation)
- Immunizations (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
Specifics
- Abusive Relationships (Children's Hospital Boston)
- Beating the Freshman 15 (Nemours Foundation)
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College Drinking
(National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
- PDF
- College Eating and Fitness 101 (Children's Hospital Boston)
- College Health for Young Women (Children's Hospital Boston)
- College Health: Mental Health Issues (Children's Hospital Boston)
- College Health: Sexual Health, Relationships, and Resources (Children's Hospital Boston)
- College Women's Health (Food and Drug Administration)
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College-Age & Young Adults
(National Institute on Drug Abuse)
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Depression and College Students
(National Institute of Mental Health)
Also in Spanish
- Food Safety Tips for College Students (Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service)
- Get the Facts: Prescription Drug Abuse on College Campuses (National Council on Patient Information and Education) - PDF
- Healthy Dining Hall Eating (Nemours Foundation)
- Managing Food Allergies at College (Food Allergy Research & Education) - PDF
- Meningococcal Disease: Information for Teens and College Students (American Academy of Pediatrics) Also in Spanish
- Six Smart Things College Students Should Do for Their Eyes (American Academy of Ophthalmology)
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Underage Drinking: MedlinePlus Health Topic
(National Library of Medicine)
Also in Spanish
Health Check Tools
- Quiz: How Much do You Know about Taking Good Care of Yourself? (Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health)
Statistics and Research
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College Drinking
(National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
Clinical Trials
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Health
(National Institutes of Health)
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Young Adult
(National Institutes of Health)
Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
Find an Expert
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Also in Spanish
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
(National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
Also in Spanish
- KidsHealth (Nemours Foundation)
Men
- Eating Disorders (Children's Hospital Boston)