Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, September 2017 / Vol. 66 / No. SS-16

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• Alternative Title:
  Surveillance for Certain Health Behaviors and Conditions among States and Selected Local Areas — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United States, 2013 and 2014
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries
• Personal Author:
  Gamble, Sonya ; Mawokomatanda, Tebitha ; Xu, Fang ; Chowdhury, Pranesh P. ; Pierannunzi, Carol ; Flegel, David ; Garvin, William ; Town, Machell
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Population Health
• Description:
  Chronic diseases and conditions (e.g., heart diseases, stroke, arthritis, and diabetes) are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. These conditions are costly to the U.S. economy, yet they are often preventable or controllable. Behavioral risk factors (e.g., excessive alcohol consumption, tobacco use, poor diet, frequent mental distress, and insufficient sleep) are linked to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Adopting positive health behaviors (e.g., staying physically active, quitting tobacco use, obtaining routine physical checkups, and checking blood pressure and cholesterol levels) can reduce morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases and conditions. Monitoring the health risk behaviors, chronic diseases and conditions, access to health care, and use of preventive health services at multilevel public health points (states, territories, and metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas [MMSA]) can provide important information for development and evaluation of health intervention programs. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is an ongoing, state-based, random-digit–dialed telephone survey of noninstitutionalized adults aged ≥18 years residing in the United States. BRFSS collects data on health risk behaviors, chronic diseases and conditions, access to health care, and use of preventive health services and practices related to the leading causes of death and disability in the United States and participating territories. This is the first BRFSS report to include age-adjusted prevalence estimates. For 2013 and 2014, these age-adjusted prevalence estimates are presented for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, and selected MMSA. Age-adjusted prevalence estimates of health status indicators, health care access and preventive practices, health risk behaviors, chronic diseases and conditions, and cardiovascular conditions vary by state, territory, and MMSA. Each set of proportions presented refers to the range of age-adjusted prevalence estimates of selected BRFSS measures as reported by survey respondents.
• Subjects:
  Adult Aged Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Chronic Disease District Of Columbia Female Guam Health Behavior Health Services Accessibility Humans Male Middle Aged Population Surveillance Prevalence Preventive Health Services Puerto Rico Risk-Taking Surveillance Summaries United States Young Adult

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• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, 2017; v. 66, no. 16
• Series:
  Surveillance Summaries: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6616a1
• ISSN:
  1546-0738 (print) ; 1545-8636 (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  28910267
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5829867
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  144 pdf pages
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  16
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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• Download URL:
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