State-Specific Prevalence of Chronic Disease Risk Factors from BRFSS

State-Specific Prevalence of Selected Chronic Disease-Related Characteristics--Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System is a dataset hosted on paperswithcode. The dataset likely contains state-level prevalence estimates for chronic disease risk factors and health-related behaviors. The data source is the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a major public health survey.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic variation in chronic disease risk factors (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Train models to predict state-level health outcomes from behavioral data (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Benchmark public health interventions across different states (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on paperswithcode.
• Sourced from the established Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• License is listed as 'closed', which may restrict usage.

Provenance

Source

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

Collection Method

Likely aggregated from a public health surveillance survey.

Geography

State-level data for the United States.