The 2011 West Virginia
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Report indicates that about half of all adults (55.3%) and 31.5% of senior citizens had not received an influenza vaccination in the past 12 months.
The
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Survey is a complex, telephone survey of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments.
The data for the study came from a nationwide survey known as the 2009
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).
The 2010
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) found bingeing in virtually every state and in every population group, regardless of age, ethnicity race, and socioeconomic level.
* Data from the CDC 2006
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System indicate that the prevalence of moderate to severe depression was generally higher in South-eastern states compared with other states.
Data were collected from 19 states that answered the Vision Impairment and Access to Eye Care modules of CDC's
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a telephone survey that annually tracks health risks in the United States.
The report, called "State-Specific Obesity Prevalence among Adults--United States, 2009," is based on new data from the
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).
The first was the 2009
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, conducted among adults aged 18 years and older on both landline and cellular telephones.
The effect of the change on testing rates was measured in a logistic regression analysis of data from New York's
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Results indicate that in the six months after the new procedure went into effect, 7% of 18-64-year-olds living in the state underwent HIV testing--31%, or 328,000, more than would have done so in the absence of the streamlined procedure.
Today, CDC's National Diabetes Surveillance System includes a comprehensive assembly of diabetes-related data from national and state-based surveys, such as the
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the National Vital Statistics System, and other data sources that examine and track the prevalence and incidence of diabetes and its risk factors in the U.S.
In a secondary analysis of the 2003
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data set, researchers examined data from 170,577 overweight participants (those who wanted to gain weight or had a healthy BMI [below 23] were excluded).