The Cambodia Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) is a school-based survey
conducted primarily among students aged 13-17 years. It measures behaviours related to the leading
causes of mortality and morbidity among youth and adults in Cambodia. The purposes of the 2013
Cambodia GSHS are:
 To evaluate health situations of school age youth in both knowledge and behaviours
 To establish trends in the prevalence of health behaviours and protective factors for use in
evaluation of school health and youth’s health promotion
 To make comparison of the students’ health situations within country and with other
countries regarding the prevalence of knowledge, attitude and behaviours towards health