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13677407

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2 Suppl 2
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-9-17
pubmed:abstractText
For the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending that countries implement noncommunicable disease (NCD) surveillance by focusing on the major risk factors that predict the most common NCDs. To achieve this goal, member states are being offered a surveillance framework that provides a first step toward an integrated approach to NCD prevention and control. The goal of this framework, the STEPwise approach to NCD surveillance (STEPS), is to increase and sustain a country's capacity to ensure ongoing surveillance. Using the data to develop interventions and policies is an integral part of the STEPS approach, which, in turn, increases capacity to influence policy. Ongoing support from donors is essential to meeting the goal of increasing a country's capacity to undertake the NCD surveillance activity required to provide the basic information from which to formulate policy that effectively reduces the burden of disease.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1049-510X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
S13-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Capacity building for an integrated noncommunicable disease risk factor surveillance system in developing countries.
pubmed:affiliation
World Health Organization, Noncommunicable Disease and Mental Health, Geneva, Switzerland. armstrongt@who.int
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article