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See also: Cardiovascular Disease & Stroke
See also: Cancer
See also: Mortality Data for interactive sites to create tables by sex, race/ethnicity, age, and geography.
Asthma Fact Sheets ![]() Produced by: Texas Department of State Health Services Dates of coverage: 2006 |
Select: Includes: Asthma mortality rates 2001-2005. Other Information: Prevalence data from BRFSS. |
Preventable Hospitalizations Preventable Hospitalizations Preventable Hospitalizations |
Select: Choose the report covering the chronic disease in which you are interested. Includes: Map showing number of admissions by county and a table providing actual data. Other Information: Each report is 8 pages and are pdf documents. See also Hospitalizations in Texas, 2001 for additional state level information. |
Assessing the Burden of Asthma
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Select: Includes: Other Information: |
Texas BRFSS: Texas Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System |
Select: Includes: Sample data for asthma diagnosis Other Information: MSAs are selected on the basis of having had 500 or more respondents to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). Metropolitan statistical areas are a group of counties that contain at least one urbanized area of 50,000 or more inhabitants. Metropolitan divisions are a smaller group of counties within a metropolitan statistical area of 2.5 million or more inhabitants. |
SMART: BRFSS City and County Data and Documentation |
Select: Chronic Disease Indicators These are data sets only; interactive maps are at the state level. |
Other links to Resources on Obesity and Diabetes (State or Federal level)
Sources of Obesity and Overweight Data in Texas (Texas Department of State Health Services)
Chronic Disease Home (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
Overweight & Obesity (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
The Surgeon General’s Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity
Finkelstein E, Fiebelkorn I, Wang G, National Medical Expenditures Attributable To Overweight and Obesity: How Much, and Who’s Paying. Health Affairs Web Exclusive, July/August 2003.