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Rise in cell phone-only homes could distort health tracking
Colleagues,
As reported by CNN ... According to a report released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as one-quarter of homes in certain areas, such as Oklahoma and Utah, lack a landline and are completely reliant on cell phones.
The CDC often relies solely on landline phones when conducting large, state-based health surveys, conducted every year to determine sexual habits, childhood immunizations rates, and dozens of others factors related to American health.
The CDC's report is the first to compare wireless phone-- only homes on a state-by-state basis. The new report is based on 2007 data, which found that Oklahoma had the highest percentage of cell phone--only homes (at 26 percent) and Vermont has the lowest (5 percent).
Read on at: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/13/healthmag.cell.phone/index.html
ENJOY!
CC
As reported by CNN ... According to a report released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as one-quarter of homes in certain areas, such as Oklahoma and Utah, lack a landline and are completely reliant on cell phones.
The CDC often relies solely on landline phones when conducting large, state-based health surveys, conducted every year to determine sexual habits, childhood immunizations rates, and dozens of others factors related to American health.
The CDC's report is the first to compare wireless phone-- only homes on a state-by-state basis. The new report is based on 2007 data, which found that Oklahoma had the highest percentage of cell phone--only homes (at 26 percent) and Vermont has the lowest (5 percent).
Read on at: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/13/healthmag.cell.phone/index.html
ENJOY!
CC
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