NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider WHO NCD Microdata RepositoryMicrodata access: Request Geography Vanuatu (VUT) Coverage type Country Time period covered 08/2011 - 10/2011 Series or system STEPS Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors Survey Data type Survey: IndividualInterviewNationally 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. 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 national survey in Vanuatu collected information on tobacco and alcohol use, diet, physical activity, physical measurements, and blood pressure. Blood measurements of glucose and cholesterol levels were also collected from a subsample. Only reports are currently available online. No microdata have been released publicly. Keywords Alcohol use, Anthropometry, Blood glucose, Blood pressure, Blood tests, Body mass index, Cholesterol, Cholesterol tests, Diabetes, Secondhand smoke, GPAQ, Glucose tests, Hypertension, Physical activity, Tobacco smoking Citation Contributors World Health Organization (WHO) Ministry of Health (Vanuatu) Funders Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID) World Health Organization (WHO) Suggested citation Ministry of Health (Vanuatu), World Health Organization (WHO). Vanuatu STEPS Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors Survey 2011. GHDx Entry last modified on: Nov 27, 2024