What is the Texas Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System?
The Texas Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), initiated in 1987, is a federally funded telephone survey of randomly selected adult Texans conducted on a monthly basis to collect data on lifestyle factors contributing to the leading causes of death and chronic disease. As a primary source for comprehensive statewide data on preventive health practices and health risk behaviors, BRFSS is an important tool for decision-making throughout the Department of State Health Services and the public health community. Public and private health authorities at the federal, state, and local levels rely on BRFSS to identify public health problems, design policies and interventions, set goals, and measure progress towards those goals.
