NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider WHO NCD Microdata RepositoryMicrodata access: Request Geography Palau (PLW) Coverage type Country Time period covered 09/2011 - 06/2013 Series or system STEPS Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors Survey Data type Survey: HouseholdIndividual 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. Keywords Alcohol use, Anthropometry, Asthma, Blood glucose, Blood pressure, Blood tests, Body mass index, Cancers, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Child mortality, Cholesterol, Chronic respiratory diseases, Community health clinics, Cooking fuels, Diabetes, Diet, Dietary sodium, Education, Employment, Ethnicity, FFQ, Family composition, Fruits, Fruits and vegetables, Glucose tests, Health behaviors, Health care personnel, Health literacy, Health status, Height, Household air pollution, Housing conditions, Hypertension, Income, Insulin, Leisure activities, Lifestyle risk factors, Marital status, Microalbuminuria screening, Mortality, Obesity, Occupations, Physical activity, Population, Pregnancy, Risk factors, Socioeconomic risk factors, Tobacco smoking, Traditional healers, Traditional medicine, Urban ambient air pollution, Vegetables, Weight, GPAQ Citation Contributors World Health Organization (WHO) Ministry of Health (Palau) Publisher World Health Organization (WHO) Suggested citation Ministry of Health (Palau), World Health Organization (WHO). Palau STEPS Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors Survey 2011-2013. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization (WHO). GHDx Entry last modified on: Mar 18, 2024