CHARTing Health Information

Texas Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (MSA and Public Health Region level; 2002-current)
Covers asthma, diabetes, flu shots, binge drinking, mammograms, pap smears, overweight/obesity, pneumonia shots, health insurance, leisure time, and smoking.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• BRFSS - Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (State level data)
  • BRFSS Maps
• MMWR Surveillance Summary (State level data, some county and MMSA level data)
  • SMART: Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Risk Trends (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention;  2002-current)
    MMSAs are selected on the basis of having had 500 or more respondents to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). Access Local Area Health Risk Data including Local Area Quick-View Charts. 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. Includes asthma, diabetes, and obesity.
  • Surveillance for Certain Health Behaviors Among Selected Local Areas --- United States, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2002
  • Leading Causes of Death (1981 through 2001; State level data; create reports by top 5 through top 20 causes of death, race/ethnicity, gender, and age)
• CDC WONDER
  • Sexually Transmitted Disease Morbidity (1989 to 1996; State level data)
  • Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance and Statistics Reports (1993 to 2002; State level data)
  • Mortality by Underlying Cause of Death (1979 to 2004; County level data)
  • Data2010: Healthy People 2010 Database (State level data)
    Includes factors such as smoking, preventive health; sex behaviors, etc.
• YRBSS: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; data sets available for 1991 to 2007; State level data)
  • State fact sheet (click on the topic, then click on TX)
  • Youth Online Comprehensive Results

Mental Health & Substance Abuse Division Research, Reports, and Data (Texas Department of State Health Services)
Includes reports on college substance abuse

• Behavioral Health Databook
• Northstar Databook
  • County Trends (Excel)
• Texas School Survey of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
• Texas College Survey of Substance Use

Tobacco Fact Sheets, Reports, and Publications (Texas Department of State Health Services; dates vary)
The reports listed below focus on all of Texas, but they do provide usage statistics for adolescents and adults, illness and deaths from tobacco, and assessments of smoking bans in restaurants.

• Progress on Achieving Texas Tobacco Goals: A report to the 79th Legislature
• Tobacco Use is a Burden to All Texas
• Tobacco and Texas: A report to the 78th Texas Legislature, January 2003
• Prevalence of Tobacco Use Among Public Middle and High School Students (1999-2001, state level; pdf report)

State Tobacco Settlement (Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids)
This special report provides state rankings for funding for tobacco prevention, tobacco prevention funding vs. tobacco revenues, and more.

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

• Statistics & Data