Show SectionUtahRisk Factors Behavioral Risk factors predict increased risk for developingdisease injury or disorder This section examines personal risk factors such as behavioral risks community risk factors such as violent crime and environmental risk factors such as air quality The risk factors highlighted in this section provide meaning and perspective to the demographic and health status data sections The logic of more risk factors create more problems revealssimple truth The accumulation of risk factors jeopardizes individual and community health Protective factors are conditions that increase resistance to risk factors and inhibit the development of problems even when encountering fisk exposure Individuals can implement protective factors such as nutrition exercise leisure activity weight loss and eliminating alcohol tobacco and substance abuse Communities can provide protective factors such as sanitation assurance of air and water quality regulation of food and agricultural services occupational and safety law enforcement preventive medicine immunizations epidemiolgy health education and others Behavioral Risk Factors Most of the risk factor data in this subsection are collected through the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System BRFSS of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC The BRFSS isstate-based random telephone survey conducted monthly throughout theS of non-institutionalized adults over age 18 Data are reported annually The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse the Utah Household Survey on Substance Abuse and the Utah School Drug Survey are other sources of data in this section 106 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |