Gardening and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Survey

Identifying Health Literacy in Kansas Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

C l i n M e d International Library Citation: Chesser AK, Melhado TV, Hines RB, Woods NK (2016) Identifying Health Literacy in Kansas Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). J Fam Med Dis Prev 2:032 Received: April 27, 2016: Accepted: May 30, 2016: Published: June 2, 2016 Copyright: © 2016 Chesser AK, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the...

Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) for Exposure Tracking: Experiences from Washington State

One of the goals of the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network is to link environmental data with chronic disease data as a means of improving our understanding of the environmental determinants of disease. Such efforts will rely on the ongoing collection of population exposure information, and there are few systems in place to track population exposures. In many cases, exposures...

National weighting of data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

BACKGROUND The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a network of health-related telephone surveys--conducted by all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and participating US territories-that receive technical assistance from CDC. Data users often aggregate BRFSS state samples for national estimates without accounting for state-level sampling, a practice that could introduce bia...

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The Hawaii Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

2 Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge the adult residents of Hawaii who voluntarily participated in the HBRFSS. Without their participation this report as well as other studies derived from HBRFSS would not have been made possible. We would also like to thank staff at the Department of Health especially Dr. Alvin T. Onaka, Chief of Office of Health Status Monitoring (OHSM) and OHSM sta...