BRFSS Chronic Disease and the Environment Data Now Available
The CDC's Behavioral Surveillance Branch in the Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, is pleased to announce the release of the 2006 BRFSS data (the most recent available) on Chronic Disease and the Environment.
The online Chronic Disease and the Environment datasets combine BRFSS data with environmental information available from other sources, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Geological Survey, and state and local monitoring networks, to compare measures of environmental quality and chronic disease.
The BRFSS is a unique, state-based surveillance system active in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. Information on health risk behaviors, clinical preventive health practices, and health care access, primarily related to chronic disease and injury, is obtained from a representative sample of non-institutionalized adults, 18 years and older, in each state. The BRFSS provides flexible, timely, and ongoing data collection that allows for state-to-state and state-to-nation comparisons. State-specific data, including racial- and ethnic-specific data from the BRFSS, provide a sound basis for developing and evaluating public health programs, including programs targeted to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health risks. The BRFSS is the largest telephone-based surveillance system in the world, with more than 400,000 interviews conducted in 2007.
The Chronic Disease and the Environment data are located at http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/cde/index.htm.
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