The Summary of Notifiable Noninfectious Conditions and Disease Outbreaks: Surveillance Data Published Between April 1, 2016 and January 31, 2017 — United States, herein referred to as the Summary (Noninfectious), contains official statistics for nationally notifiable noninfectious conditions and disease outbreaks. This Summary (Noninfectious) is being published in the same volume of MMWR as the annual Summary of Notifiable Infectious Diseases and Conditions (1). Data on notifiable noninfectious conditions and disease outbreaks from prior years have been published previously (2,3).

The Summary (Noninfectious) includes a synopsis of major findings from published Surveillance reports for nationally notifiable noninfectious conditions and disease outbreaks, internet links to the complete published Surveillance reports, and links to data and tables displaying current and Historyical descriptive statistics for each condition. Providing detailed descriptive current year and Historyical data and tables online makes the data more accessible and usable to the public. Surveillance summaries and other published reports on each condition will now present major statistical findings and Trends and summarize what public health programs are doing to address the condition, evidence-based recommendations for Prevention and control of the condition, and how persons, workers, and community groups can use the combination of information to improve their health. An additional benefit of these changes is that the CDC programs responsible for noninfectious conditions and disease outbreaks will develop and publish reports for each notifiable condition as the data become available. This approach minimizes delays that can occur when collating data from multiple programs into a single report.

This Summary (Noninfectious) presents the highlights of Surveillance information published between April 1, 2016 and January 31, 2017 (Surveillance period varied) on five of nine nationally notifiable noninfectious conditions (Box): cancer, elevated blood lead levels among children aged <5 years, foodborne disease outbreaks,; and acute nonoccupational and occupational pesticide-related illness and injury. Although no published Surveillance findings for carbon monoxide Poisoning, elevated blood lead levels among adults, waterborne disease outbreaks, and silicosis were available for inclusion in this annual summary, the most recent data for these and the other five conditions are available at https://wonder.cdc.gov. The data presented in the referenced publications and in the internet links are the most recent available to CDC.

Suggested citation for this article: Thomas K, Jajosky R, Coates RJ, et al. Summary of Notifiable Noninfectious Conditions and Disease Outbreaks: Surveillance Data Published Between April 1, 2016 and January 31, 2017 — United States MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2017;64:1–6. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6454a1.