Daily Archives: December 30, 2016

Surveillance Data Sources Health-Related Quality of Life—Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) The BRFSS is an annual state-based telephone survey of the U.S. civilian, non-institutionalized adult population. The Healthy Days measures used to assess health-related quality of life (HRQOL) have … Continue reading →

Negative attitudes about mental illness often underlie stigma, which can cause affected persons to deny symptoms; delay treatment; be excluded from employment, housing, or relationships; and interfere with recovery (1). Understanding attitudes toward mental illness at the state level could … Continue reading →

Depression: According to the World Health Organization, unipolar depression was the third most important cause of disease burden worldwide in 2004. Unipolar depression was in “eighth place in low-income countries, but at first place in middle- and high-income countries.”1 In … Continue reading →