Health survey dilemma: Can you hear me now?
October 7th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Washington — As more Americans ditch their traditional home telephones in favor of cell phones, researchers who keep tabs on the nation’s health via telephone are becoming increasingly concerned that important segments of the population are being missed.
For the first time, bias threatens surveillance systems used by state and local health departments to establish policies on an enormous range of health behaviors, from alcohol use and smoking to diabetes awareness and who’s getting a flu shot. The fear is that population-wide interventions could be off-target, and even physicians’ understanding of patients’ health risks may be somewhat askew.
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