Tuesday, May 13, 2025
5/13/2025
BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (BRFSS) FOR CALIFORNIA - Since 1984, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has participated as a part of the national Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) program housed within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This national state-based survey monitors modifiable risk factors associated with chronic and communicable diseases by collecting information from adults on their health behaviors and preventive practices. Resulting data provide public health professionals with invaluable information used by programs to monitor, evaluate, and develop policies designed to modify negative health behaviors and plan prevention strategies. Purpose: The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), in partnership with the California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) Public Health Survey Research Program (PHSRP), will administer the BRFSS to provide ongoing surveillance of health behaviors among the general population through the use of telephone and multimode survey methods. The collection, analyses, and dissemination of these data to State categorical programs shall be utilized to assess trends, direct program planning, evaluate programs, establish program priorities, develop policy, and target relevant population groups. BRFSS data will assist CDPH in four goals of CDPH’s 2019 to 2022 strategic map: 1) Protect the public’s health, 2) Promote health and wellness, 3) Increase health equity, and 4) Optimize data and technology. Outcomes: CDPH and CA BRFSS analyze, disseminate, and promote BRFSS data to program partners and stakeholders, within CDPH and other external departments. CA BRFSS data are used extensively by our Center for Healthy Communities. The Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is committed to public health approaches that strengthen both state and local leadership, alignment, and partnerships to drive action to influence determinants of health, eliminate health inequalities, and achieve positive health outcomes. During the next three-year project period, CA BRFSS will work toward achieving both the short- and intermediate-terms increasing access to more quality and timelier BRFSS data which is accessible and can be more easily analyzed by programs, stakeholders, and researches to identify health risk behavior and health status of populations. CA BRFSS will improve the availability, quality and BRFSS data collection by focusing on the following to achieve both outcomes: • Targeting 6,000 completed surveys with a minimum of at least 4,000 completed surveys to permit analyses by demographic categories of age, sex, race/ethnicity, education level, and county. • Ensuring continuous data collection throughout the calendar year, to account for seasonal variation. • Ensuring that cell phone/landline distribution of interviews correspond to California’s level of phone use statistics. The most recent data for California supports CA collecting 80% cell phone and 20% landline when 75% of state is wireless only or mostly, 13% dual use and 9 percent landline only or mostly. • Providing a sample design that accounts for sub-state geography.
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