Surgeon General's Warning on the Harms of Screen Use: An Advisory and Toolkit on How to Protect Children and Adolescents

The U.S. Surgeon General’s definitive public-health guide to what screens are doing to children and what to do about it.

The U.S. Surgeon General’s Warning on the Harms of Screen Use examines the mounting evidence linking harmful screen use among children and adolescents to problems with mental and physical health, sleep, attention, learning, physical activity, relationships, and overall well-being. It defines the problem broadly, encompassing not only social media but smartphones, gaming, A...