"Chronic disease accounts for seven of the 10 leading causes of deaths for the state of Arizona.... Effective public health programs include the monitoring of disease risk factors through public health surveillance.... Health indicators were chosen to address the need for a chronic disease surveillance system.... The data systems for chronic disease surveillance include mortality, hospital discharge, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), United States Renal Data System (USRDS), and United States Census data. This report condenses information about the leading chronic diseases in Arizona ... [and] is intended to serve the needs of several chronic disease programs by summarizing and comparing outcome data.... [It presents] statewide trend data of the behavioral risk factors for these diseases"--Page 3.