Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

According to the text, this population was chosen because studies integrating these behaviors change models typically enrolled participants having high education and socioeconomic status. Validation of these models in specialized populations will provide information regarding their applicability and will assist in dictating appropriate behavior-change interventions to underserved individuals. 3 - We learned during this class that the social determinants of health are related to “the conditions in which people are born, grown up, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age, as well as the systems put in place to deal with illnesses that affect health and quality of life (Book).” Results of this study indicated that the current sample of low-income individuals attending primary care clinics has high rates of sedentary behaviors that may have a significant impact on their health…

Her Mom, Dad, David Oldroyd, and siblings have all actively taken part in being supportive of Morgan’s treatment plan while encouraging her to continue to make positive choices. Another one of Morgan’s risk domains is: Friends youth spends time with. Morgan admits that it would be a challenge seeing past peers who have not been a great influence on her, she also expressed the challenges of having access to parties. However, Morgan feels comfort in knowing that her family is willing to support…

Falls are one of the most common injury in a health care facility. It is the leading cause of “morbidity and mortality for people older than 65 years” (Touhy & Jet, 2012, p. 207). This age group is common in Windsor Manor Rehabilitation Center in Concord, California. Most of the patients in Windsor are older adults with impaired cognition, gait, visual acuity, and muscle strength, and experiencing chronic pain – putting them in high risk for falling. In fact, their CASPER Report (2016) states…

Transfer of roundworms to humans Roundworms usually pose a major risk to the humans because they can be transferred easily to the body of humans. This makes them be a major risk to humans because they usually spread fast. Coming into contact with contaminated soil can make the roundworms to be easily spread into the body of humans. Pets are usually some of the major carriers of roundworms and therefore coming into contact with them usually make it easy for the roundworms to be transferred…

Syndromic surveillance approaches could be utilized to track the burden of chronic illnesses such as heart disease and mental illness. Data collection and analysis would be a useful tool for tracking risk factors and trends of population health. The resulting data may be used to enhance public health prevention strategies or disease management and may also provide further identification of risk factors. According to Choi (2012) surveillance is considered to be an essential function the of…

depression rate is also relatively high on the east coast. Nevertheless, in the middle-north of America is high prevalence of binge drinking with moderate depression rate, which cannot explain the binge drinking by depression. Although the association between binge drinking and depression shown on the map is not so obvious, we can tell the crude association from the map. Limitations According to the nature of ecology study, ecological fallacy is the most prominent of this project, which means…

The data of this study came from 2015 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey (BRFSS). The sample size of the study is 441,456 people. The exposures for the exposures were gender, age group, body mass index, hypertension awareness, tobacco use, and physical activity level. The outcome of the study was type two diabetes. Data was obtained by using CDC Web enabled Analysis Tool (WEAT). The odds ratio and 95% CI for each exposure and type two diabetes are respectively as follow: Gender-(…

This is a concern, especially since studies have shown that symptoms of depression may be 2 to 10 times more common in individuals with disabilities. (Thompson, 2002) In the case of Arkansas, it is shown that Arkansans with developmental disabilities report extremely high rates of depression (52.3%) compared to the general population (6.7%). (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, 2010) There are several factors contributing to this high rate of depression within the disabled community.…

looking into the issues to what we know and do not know about which are related to motivational predictors and perceived barriers associated with follow-up colorectal cancer (CRC) surveillance in newly diagnosed Lynch Syndrome (LS) aged 49 years and younger. Current theory-based claims that CRC surveillance produces benefits in that it is a preventative measure used in early cancer detection and early treatment, reducing CRC morbidity and mortality in high-risk LS individuals. There are many…

today. This virus suppressed the immune system by destroying TH cells over time and progress to AIDS. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated 1.2 million Americans are living with HIV/AIDS. Also, the CDC estimates the prevalence of an average of 50,000 newly infected each year. This disease is not mention as much in the media but is still very prevalent. In some American cultures and gender, the rate on infection is slowly growing and sustaining this immune deficient…