Measuring health behaviors in populations.

摘要: Health behaviors are a leading cause of illness and death in the United States. Efforts to improve public health require information on prevalence populations — not only target programs areas most need but also evaluate effectiveness intervention efforts. Telephone surveys, such as Centers for Disease Control Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, good way assess populations. These data provide estimates at national state level often multiple years reliable local level. With changes telephone use (eg, rapid decline ownership landlines), innovative methods collect behaviors, care settings or through Internet-based be developed.