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Lebanon STEPS Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors Survey 2008-2009

General Info

Original or alternative title 
Non-communicable Diseases and Behavioral Risk Factor Survey: Comparison of estimates based on cell phone interviews with face to face interviews
Provider 
World Health Organization (WHO)
Tabulations only
Geography 
Lebanon (LBN)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
May, 2008 - August, 2009
Series or system 
STEPS Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors Survey
Data type
Survey: Household - Nationally representative
Summary 

The STEPS Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors Survey uses a survey methodology developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to help countries establish noncommunicable disease surveillance systems. Some surveys are conducted at the country level and others at the subnational level. The methodology prescribes three steps—questionnaire, physical measurements, and biochemical measurements. Core topics covered by most surveys are demographics, health status, and health behaviors. These provide data on socioeconomic risk factors and metabolic, nutritional, and lifestyle risk factors. Details may differ from country to country and from year to year. 

This Lebanonese national survey included smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, physical activity, medical history, physical measurements, and biochemical measurements.

Only reports are currently available. No data have been released.

Keywords 
Alcohol use, Anthropometry, Asthma, Blood glucose, Blood pressure, Body mass index, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Cholesterol, Diabetes, Diet, Disability, Education, Employment, Fruits, Fruits and vegetables, Glucose tests, Health behaviors, Health care services, Health insurance, Health status, Height, Hospitals, Hypercholesterolemia, Hypertension, Hypertriglyceridemia, Income, Legumes, Lifestyle risk factors, Literacy, Marital status, Milk, Nuts, Obesity, Physical activity, Processed meats, Risk factors, Socioeconomic risk factors, Stroke, Sugar-sweetened beverages, Tobacco use, Unprocessed red meat, Vegetables, Weight, Whole grains

Citation

Contributors 
World Health Organization (WHO)
American University of Beirut
Funders 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET)
National Council for Scientific Research (Lebanon)
Suggested citation 
American University of Beirut, World Health Organization (WHO). Lebanon STEPS Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors Survey 2008-2009.

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