NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider World Health Organization (WHO)Tabulations only Geography Egypt (EGY) Coverage type Country Time period covered 11/2011 - 01/2012 Series or system STEPS Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors Survey Data type Survey: HouseholdInterview 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 Egyptian national survey included smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, physical activity, physical measurements, and biochemical measurements. Keywords Alcohol use, Anthropometry, Blood pressure, Body mass index, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Cholesterol, Diabetes, Diet, Education, Employment, Family composition, Fruits and vegetables, Glucose tests, Health behaviors, Health status, Height, Hypertension, Hypertriglyceridemia, Income, Lifestyle risk factors, Literacy, Marital status, Obesity, Physical activity, Population, Risk factors, Socioeconomic risk factors, Tobacco smoking, Weight, Smokeless tobacco use, FFQ, Secondhand smoke Citation Contributors World Health Organization (WHO) Ministry of Health and Population (Egypt) United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Suggested citation Ministry of Health and Population (Egypt), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), World Health Organization (WHO). Egypt STEPS Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors Survey 2011-2012. GHDx Entry last modified on: Dec 14, 2023