20 Presentation Information
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the nation’s premier system of health-related telephone surveys collecting US data regarding health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services. BRFSS completes more than 400,000 adult interviews each year, making it the largest continuously conducted health survey system in the world.
PLACES provides access to this health data for small areas across the country. This allows local health departments and jurisdictions, regardless of population size and rurality, to better understand the burden and geographic distribution of health measures in their areas and assist them in planning public health interventions.
Public health data is important to all of us as members of a community. It is vital to our current health care system and initiatives. This data is free and available to anyone. We will begin exploring the data in a lab assignment that generates a proposal for presentations.
Data, template, and example are accessibly linked within this page. Consider the following topic prompts when generating your proposal.
- Do counties reporting higher percentages of adult smokers also have higher rates of COPD according to the dataset?
- Do counties reporting higher percentages of adults sleeping less than 7 hours a night also report more adults with high blood pressure?
- Do counties reporting the higher percentages of high cholesterol also report more strokes?
- Do counties with higher obesity rates report more diabetes?
- Do counties reporting lack of physical activity also report more days of mental health not good in the past thirty days?
The presentation rubric is visible in this linked template (TCC Presentation Template ). You are welcome to express your creativity with the format and add more slides. The template provides the minimum number of slides with titles and descriptions. Details for what should appear in each section are visible in the template as italicized instructions. If you would like to see an example presentation, click here.
Colleague collaborators can find all assignment information linked here (UR PROJECT).
