Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a United States health survey that looks at behavioral risk factors. ... Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System CDC Website (Surveys (human research), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). ...
Disability in the United States
"Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System". CDC.gov. Retrieved 2015-07-28. "National Institute on Aging, Laboratory of ... the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and the Health, Aging, and Body Composition (Health ABC) Study are used to ... The second and third criteria are seen as ensuring protection from unjust discrimination based on a perception of risk, just ... Siordia C, Ramos AK (2015). "Risk for Disability and Poverty Among Central Asians in the United States". Central Asian Journal ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the world's largest, ongoing telephone health-survey system. Mortality ... "Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System". CDC: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. ... "Guns are a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home", reported "mere presence of a gun in a home increased the risk of a firearm- ... "Module 2: WHO and CDC Global Surveillance Systems". Unite for Sight. "CDC's Role in Global HIV Control". Centers for Disease ...
America's Health Rankings
"About the Senior Report". CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). National Vital Statistics System. America's ... Data from CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Binge drinking: Percentage of adults who had four or more ( ... Data from the Youth Behavioral Risk Surveillance System. Youth Obesity: Percentage of high school students who were greater or ... Data from the Youth Behavioral Risk Surveillance System. Chronic Disease Heart Disease: Percentage of adults told by a health ...
Lesbian Health Initiative of Houston
"Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System". Center for American ... By that time, new medical research had revealed lesbians were at higher risk of breast and cervical cancer than their straight ... and had higher rates and risk of homelessness and tobacco usage. Additionally, it addressed the large data gap surrounding the ...
Child abuse
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System corroborate these ... and a personal history of abuse may serve as risk factors of child abuse. At the level of society, factors contributing to ... WHO and ISPCAN state that understanding the complex interplay of various risk factors is vital for dealing with the problem of ... Sexual victimization at a young age has been correlated with several risk factors for contracting HIV including decreased ...
Gender dysphoria
Between 2007 and 2009, survey participants aged 18 to 64 years in the Massachusetts Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ... The primary risks of pubertal suppression in gender dysphoric youth treated with GnRH agonists include adverse effects on bone ... Gender dysphoria is also associated with an increased risk of eating disorders in transgender youth. A widely held view among ... More rigorous studies are needed to assess the effectiveness, safety, and long-term benefits and risks of hormonal and surgical ...
Electronic cigarette
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2016 and 2017". American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 58 (3): 336-332. doi: ... The health risks of e-cigarettes are not known for certain, but the risk of serious adverse events is thought to be low, and e- ... Data from two states in the Pregnancy Risk Assessment System (PRAMS) show that in 2015-roughly the mid-point of the study ... the evidence on electronic nicotine delivery systems (e-cigarettes)". Risk Management and Healthcare Policy. 8: 157-167. doi: ...
Social determinants of health
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2018-2019". American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 65 (1): 59-71. doi:10.1002/ ... rather than individual risk factors (such as behavioral risk factors or genetics) that influence the risk for a disease, or ... and these behavioral risk factors account for a relatively small proportion of variation in the incidence and death from ... cultural/behavioral and materialist/structuralist The cultural/behavioral explanation is that individuals' behavioral choices ( ...
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the LGBT community
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United States, 2017-2019". MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 70 (5): 149 ... This poses an additional risk factor for those with HIV who will face challenges in communicating with their healthcare ... Heslin, Kevin C. (2021). "Sexual Orientation Disparities in Risk Factors for Adverse COVID-19-Related Outcomes, by Race/ ... "The lives and livelihoods of many in the LGBTQ community are at risk amidst COVID-19 crisis" (PDF). Human Rights Campaign ...
Nancy Reagan
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1987". Department of Health and Human Services. March 10, 1989. Retrieved June 23, ... "Biography for Nancy Davis". Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. 2007. Retrieved October 17, 2007. Cannon, Lou (2003), pp. 75-76. " ...
Health Information National Trends Survey
The University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Puerto Rico Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System ... Journal of General Internal Medicine, 23(3), 223-228 Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance Survey National Health Interview ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance Survey and National Health Interview ... The sampling consisted of a two-stage stratified sample of addresses used by Marketing Systems Group (MSG). In the All Adult ...
Sweetened beverage
According to the Center for Disease Control, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey found that 30.1% of American ... In addition to dietary sugar being associated with CKD risk factors, data from animal studies do suggest that sugar consumption ... Obesity prevalence is due to genetic, metabolic, cultural, environmental, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors. Along with the ... There is a strong link between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes. However, the high risk of type ...
Poverty in the United States
With data collected from 35 states from 2014-2017, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey shows that ... making it the seventh leading risk factor for mortality that year. There are numerous factors related to poverty in the United ... A number of factors helped start the national War on Poverty in the 1960s. In 1962, Michael Harrington's book The Other America ... They may have a lower immune systems due to malnutrition, and they are more likely to have chronic disease like asthma. Child ...
Varicella vaccine
"The incidence of varicella and herpes zoster in Massachusetts as measured by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ( ... However, this risk is less than the risk due to a natural infection resulting in chickenpox.: 378 Most of the cases reported ... The risk of developing shingles is reduced for children who receive the varicella vaccine, but not eliminated. The CDC stated ... However, the risk of getting shingles from vaccine-strain VZV after chickenpox vaccination is much lower than getting shingles ...
Respiratory Health Association
Health Association secures the inclusion of questions about COPD on the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the ...
Shingles
"The incidence of varicella and herpes zoster in Massachusetts as measured by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ( ... Another important risk factor is immunosuppression. Other risk factors include psychological stress. According to a study in ... It is unclear whether the risk is different by sex. Other potential risk factors include mechanical trauma and exposure to ... Gatti A, Pica F, Boccia MT, De Antoni F, Sabato AF, Volpi A (2010). "No evidence of family history as a risk factor for herpes ...
Questionnaire
Survey methodology Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Computer-assisted personal interviewing Enterprise Feedback ... Factor analysis is used in the scale development process. Questionnaires used to collect quantitative data usually comprise ... "A Prospective Study of Dietary Acrylamide Intake and the Risk of Endometrial, Ovarian, and Breast Cancer". Cancer Epidemiology ...
Sex education in the United States
A 2014 study in Florida, supported by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Survey administration and Florida ... Comprehensive sex education is also called abstinence-based, abstinence-plus, abstinence-plus-risk-reduction, and sexual risk ... "Conceptual Models to Depict the Factors that Influence the Avoidance and Cessation of Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Youth". ... risk of pregnancy, and risk of sexually transmitted diseases". Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 27 (2): 255-276. doi: ...
List of MeSH codes (G03)
... behavioral risk factor surveillance system MeSH G03.850.520.308.250.300 - dental health surveys MeSH G03.850.520.308.250.300. ... risk assessment MeSH G03.850.520.830.600.800.725 - risk factors MeSH G03.850.520.830.600.900 - uncertainty MeSH G03.850.520.830 ... precipitating factors MeSH G03.850.490.625.750 - risk factors MeSH G03.850.490.687 - comorbidity MeSH G03.850.490.718 - ... population surveillance MeSH G03.850.520.308.250.700.650 - sentinel surveillance MeSH G03.850.520.308.335 - health care surveys ...
List of MeSH codes (N05)
... behavioral risk factor surveillance system MeSH N05.715.360.300.375.300 - dental health surveys MeSH N05.715.360.300.375.300. ... risk assessment MeSH N05.715.360.750.625.700.690.800 - risk adjustment MeSH N05.715.360.750.625.700.700 - risk factors MeSH ... precipitating factors MeSH N05.715.350.200.700 - risk factors MeSH N05.715.350.225 - comorbidity MeSH N05.715.350.240 - ... epidemiologic factors MeSH N05.715.350.075 - age factors MeSH N05.715.350.075.100 - age of onset MeSH N05.715.350.075.550 - ...
List of acronyms: B
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Mental disorder
In a study based on data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, more than one-third (34%) of Latin American ... Risk factors for mental illness include a propensity for high neuroticism or "emotional instability". In anxiety, risk factors ... "Disparities in behavioral health risk factors in the past decade have also grown and closely parallel the overall growth in the ... Different risk factors may be present at different ages, with risk occurring as early as during prenatal period. A number of ...
Door County, Wisconsin
In 2017-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System figures, adults in Door County have the highest incidence of arthritis ... Possible factors included lack of ballast and a sudden development of 11-foot (3.4 m) waves. The body of one of the two crew ... Out of all races, 7 were ethnically Hispanic/Latino In 2019, the county Behavioral Health Unit had 185 clients, up from 142 in ... Egg Harbor operates a free public bicycle-sharing system, limited to daylight hours within the village during the tourist ...
Adverse childhood experiences
... in 2009 the CDC started collecting data on the prevalence of ACEs as part of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ( ... and metabolic systems of children. ACEs are associated with lifelong physical and mental health problems that emerge in ...
List of MeSH codes (E05)
... behavioral risk factor surveillance system MeSH E05.318.308.250.300 - dental health surveys MeSH E05.318.308.250.300.300 - ... risk assessment MeSH E05.318.740.600.800.725 - risk factors MeSH E05.318.740.600.900 - uncertainty MeSH E05.318.740.750 - ... population surveillance MeSH E05.318.308.250.700.650 - sentinel surveillance MeSH E05.318.308.335 - health care surveys MeSH ... two-hybrid system techniques MeSH E05.393.560.150 - comet assay MeSH E05.393.560.598 - micronucleus tests MeSH E05.393.600.300 ...
Air pollution in Mexico City
... and asking them some Spanish-translated versions of the United States 2005 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. The ... The air-quality monitor system (IMECA) is the tool used by the Mexican Authorities to measure air quality. A total of 8 system ... IMECA is the index used to display the level of pollution and the level of risk that represents to the human health in the ... Other factors include the proliferation of vehicles, rapid industrial growth, and the population boom. The Mexican government ...
Affordable Care Act
An analysis of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey data found a 2.8% annual increase in viral suppression ... Risk adjustment involves transferring funds from plans with lower-risk enrollees to plans with higher-risk enrollees. It was ... Of the three risk management programs, only risk adjustment was permanent. Plans with low actuarial risk compensate plans with ... The risk-corridor program was a temporary risk management device.: 1 It was intended to encourage reluctant insurers into ACA ...
Healthcare in Canada
"Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System". Center for American ... While the Canadian healthcare system has been called a single payer system, Canada "does not have a single health care system" ... In 2019, 80 percent of Canadian adults self-reported having at least one major risk factor for chronic disease: smoking, ... The Canadian health care system is often compared to the U.S. system. According to a report by the New York-based independent ...
Obstacles to receiving mental health services among African American youth
Furthermore, the data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) showed that Black students commit suicide at ... clinician and therapeutic factors, the school system, religion/spirituality, and social networks. When examining the prevalence ... "If I took my child to a professional for help with emotional or behavioral problems, I think people in my community would find ... "Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance - United States, 2017". MMWR. Surveillance Summaries. 67 (8): 1-114. doi:10.15585/mmwr. ...