The Hawaii Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
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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 staff for mortality statistics relevant to diabetes. The HBRFSS is an ongoing land-based random telephone survey of randomly selected adult residents 18 years and older on behaviors that affects health directly and indirectly. The HBRFSS is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the national Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). The HBRFSS has been in operation since 1986.
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