Tuesday, May 13, 2025
5/13/2025
Texas Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System: Impact in Population Health - Texas is the second largest state in the United States by size and population. It is home to not only diverse landscapes but a diverse population with more than a third being Hispanic and almost 1 in 5 being foreign born. Hundreds of thousands of Texas adults are living with at least one chronic condition and in 2015, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and chronic lower respiratory diseases accounted for 1 in 2 deaths. Texas is one of 57 states and territories participating in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). The BRFSS is the primary source of data for health risk behaviors and the health status of the large and diverse population of Texas. This application is for the continuance of the Texas BRFSS program’s partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through financial and technical support. BRFSS data will be used by the Texas BRFSS program partners to describe and monitor health behaviors and conditions in Texas, its counties, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and public health regions, as well as to design and evaluate interventions to improve the health status of Texas residents. The Texas BRFSS program will continue its history of collecting accurate, timely, and quality state-based surveillance data while working to continue improving data collection at the state and sub-state level. The Texas BRFSS program will engage in planning activities aimed at achieving the following outcomes: a) increasing the access to more quality and timelier BRFSS data collected and analyzed and b) increasing the use of BRFSS data by public health organizations to identify health risk behaviors and the health status of the Texas population. These activities will be evaluated and opportunities for further quality improvement will be identified throughout the project period.
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