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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Victor R. Preedy, +1 more
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Measuring the Built Environment for Physical Activity: State of the Science

TL;DR: This first comprehensive examination of built-environment measures demonstrates considerable progress over the past decade, showing diverse environmental variables available that use multiple modes of assessment.
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Building a framework for global surveillance of the public health implications of adverse childhood experiences.

TL;DR: People working in the fields of public health and child development from Canada, China, the former ugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Philippines, Saudi Araia, South Africa, Switzerland, and Thailand met in Geneva, Switzerland to build a framework for pubic health surveillance that can be used to define the global burden of adverse childhood experiences.
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Surveillance for certain health behaviors among states and selected local areas--Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United States, 2011.

TL;DR: The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is an ongoing, state-based, random-digit-dialed telephone survey of noninstitutionalized adults aged ≥18 years residing in the United States that collects data on health-risk behaviors, chronic diseases and conditions, access to health care, and use of preventive health services and practices related to the leading causes of death and disabilities.
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The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure.

TL;DR: In addition to making criteria-based diagnoses of depressive disorders, the PHQ-9 is also a reliable and valid measure of depression severity, which makes it a useful clinical and research tool.
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The PHQ-9: A new depression diagnostic and severity measure

TL;DR: A number of case-finding instruments for detecting depression in primary care, ranging from 2 to 28 items, tend to be highly correlated, with little evidence that one measure is superior to any other.
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Screening for Serious Mental Illness in the General Population

TL;DR: The brevity and accuracy of the K6 and K10 scales make them attractive screens for SMI, and routine inclusion of either scale in clinical studies would create an important, and heretofore missing, crosswalk between community and clinical epidemiology.
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