The world health organization STEPwise approach to noncommunicable disease risk-factor surveillance: Methods, challenges, and opportunities

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 74-78

  Riley, Leanne ^a   Guthold, Regina ^a   Cowan, Melanie ^a   Savin, Stefan ^a   Bhatti, Lubna ^a   Armstrong, Timothy ^a   Bonita, Ruth ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84951915526     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302962     Document Type: Article

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