The Gambling Prevalence Survey, released on September 19th, surprised many with its findings, though some contest the figures.
Around one in three males and one in five females reported lifetime use of any illegal drug, according to the Drug Prevalence Survey.
"The Gambia established a National Eye care Programme following our prevalence survey of blindness and eye diseases in 1986, " said Dr Yakumba Kassama, the country's Health Minister.
According to the 2010 British Gambling Prevalence Survey, most problem gamblers are men, but a growing number of women are also gambling more than they can afford.
The survey concluded that the "prevalence of hazardous and harmful drinking has declined since 2003, most notably in the 2003 to 2009 period".
BBC: Scottish Health Survey: Obesity still problem for Scots
"Compared with the nutrition survey results of 1992, the prevalence of being overweight has increased 39% and the prevalence of obesity increased 97%, " the vice minister said, as quoted in newswire reports.
Meanwhile, Mississippi scored at or near the bottom on 11 of the 22 survey measures, showing a high prevalence of obesity, high rate of childhood poverty, low high school graduation rates, limited availability of primary care physicians and many preventable hospitalizations.
In a recent survey conducted by U.N. agencies, the prevalence of chronic malnutrition in children was 27.9% and acute malnutrition was 4%.
According to the General Social Survey, conducted by the National Policy Opinion Center at the University of Chicago, the prevalence of gun ownership has declined steadily in the past few decades.
To describe the prevalence of binge drinking, the CDC analyzed data from its 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, an annual telephone survey, and the national 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, an anonymous questionnaire completed by high school students nationwide.
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