Public health surveillance for disease prevention: Lessons from the behavioral risk factor surveillance system

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 2 SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Mokdad, Ali H ^a   Bales, Virginia S ^a   Greenlund, Kurt J ^a   Mensah, George A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior risk factors; Public health; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; HEALTH; METHODOLOGY;

BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0042528361     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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