...of continuing and specialized surveys. Two of the most important current general population surveys, the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), are described below. National Health Interview Survey A continuing survey implemented in...

...and morbidity data systems containing information on occupation is limited. Host of the systems, eg, the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), are too small to allow analyses to develop leads or examine trends for specific occupational...

...Statistics abound on health status and use of medical care services at the federal, state, and local levels. The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) are the major national surveys for assessment of health status in the United States and are...

...and straining with stool passage. Epidemiology Large national surveys in the United States including the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) suggest that between 2%-13% of the population of the United States report the symptom of constipation...

...2.5-year period. The survey is co-sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is a continuing, nationwide survey of about 43,000 households that collects information about illnesses,...

...child injuries. These conditions, however, were measured in no more than half of all the surveys. While the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) assess the greatest breadth of conditions, NHANES collects the most comprehensive and detailed...

...include the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES).* Useful commercial sources include the annual studies conducted by Mediamark Research...

...Work is currently in progress to integrate brief psychiatric measures into national surveys such as the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES-IV). NHANES has recently been using some modules of the DISC and the DISC Predictive Screener,...

...Occupational Injuries (CFOI) (5). National data sources that measure general health indices, such as the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), have, to some extent, addressed occupational health concerns. Surveillance has at least two...

...(for more information, see www.census. gov). The NCHS is responsible for two major national surveys: the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The sampling design and the estimation procedures used in these surveys are similar to the...