Risk Factors

CDC Summarizes 1994-95 Statistics on Modifiable Health Behaviors

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 18th, 1997

States use the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to collect data about modifiable health behaviors - such as smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, lack of exercise, and lack of preventive health care - and to monitor trends and changes in the prevalence of behavioral risk factors in state populations.

BRFSS data also are used to monitor progress toward the year 2000 national health objectives.

In a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ("State and Sex-Specific Prevalence of Selected Characteristics --- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1994 and 1995." MMWR...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (1997-08-18)

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