Recent Blog Posts

View Post: Estimated County-Level Prevalence of Diabetes and Obesity
20 Nov 2009 by thebreastdiva  
Current surveillance systems (eg the National Health Interview Survey and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System [BRFSS]) have characterized these conditions at the national and state level (5,6) but cannot provide data at local ...
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View Post: CIENCIASMEDICASNEWS: Estimated County-Level Prevalence of Diabetes ...
19 Nov 2009 by salud equitativa  
Data from BRFSS for 2006, 2007, and 2008 and from the U.S. Census were used to estimate the number and prevalence of cases of diabetes and obesity among adults aged ≥20 years for all 3141 counties in the United States. ...
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View Post: State-Specific Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Current Cigarette ...
13 Nov 2009 by admin  
To assess SHS exposure in homes and indoor workplaces and the prevalence of smoke-free home rules, CDC analyzed 2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data from 11 states and the US Virgin Islands (USVI). ...
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View Post: happiness is access to medical care
24 Nov 2009 by Administrator  
Professor Blanchflower analyses data for the years 2005 through 2008 from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). The BRFSS was established in 1984 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ...
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View Post: MyHealthMatters: MMWR: Variable to Low or No Effectiveness of 2008 ...
13 Nov 2009 by Dr D Quek  
BRFSS respondents were considered vaccinated if they 1) said "yes" to either having an influenza shot or nasal spray during the past 12 months, and 2) indicated a month and year of vaccination during September 2008--February 2009. ...
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View Post: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Behavioral Risk ...
4 Nov 2009 by forex  
The 27th Annual Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Conference will be held March 20-24, 2010, at the San Diego Marriott Mission Valley in San Diego, California. The BRFSS Conference Committee seeks abstracts for oral and ...
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View Post: The RFP Database: 2010-2011 Minnesota BRFSS telephone survey
24 Aug 2009 by webmaster@rfpdb.com (The RFP Database)  
2010-2011 Minnesota BRFSS telephone survey. Find RFPs without any subscription fees or commissions. Looking for RFP opportunities to bid on, a place to publicize your RFP, or sample RFPs? This is your destination for everything about ...
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View Post: A TIME'S MEMORY: Effectiveness of 2008–09 Trivalent Influenza ...
12 Nov 2009 by Giuseppe Michieli  
Previous BRFSS estimates of vaccine coverage demonstrate that >98% of influenza vaccination occurs before March of the influenza season (CDC, unpublished data, 2009). BRFSS respondents were considered vaccinated if they 1) said “yes” to ...
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View Post: foodconsumer.org - Effectiveness of swine flu vaccine - CDC
12 Nov 2009
To obtain the vaccine exposure odds ratio, the odds of vaccination among pandemic H1N1 cases was divided by the odds of vaccination among the population as estimated from BRFSS data. Pandemic H1N1 cases were reported to CDC as part of ...
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View Post: BRFSS 2009 Data Collectors Workshop: Agenda Revision - Web session ...
19 Aug 2009 by BRFSS 2009 OKC Planning  
The agenda has been updated to include a column showing which web conference sessions will be associated with each on-site session. Posted by BRFSS 2009 OKC Planning at 4:54 PM ...
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