WHO mission visits Qatar for finalisation of preparation for implementing STEPwise survey – The Peninsula

WHO mission visits Qatar for finalisation of preparation for implementing STEPwise survey – The Peninsula

DOHA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) mission consisting of members from WHO-EMRO office and WHO-HQ visited Qatar to provide overall guidance on the planning and implementation of STEPwise survey, finalisation of data collection tools and also to train Master trainers for data collection trainings.

The Ministry of Public Health, Qatar is in preparation of implementation of the National STEPwise Survey, for chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and risk factors of non-communicable diseases. The STEPs is a standardised survey developed by WHO and carried out in collaboration with Planning & Statistics Authority (PSA) and in cooperation with Primary Health Care(PHCC) and Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).

Technical support for the implementation of STEPS is provided by WHO headquarters, regional and country offices, including STEPS training workshops delivered at different stages of the surveillance process: planning and training, data collection, data analysis, and reporting, as well as data utilisation.

The survey in Qatar is second cycle of STEPwise surveys, as a follow up for the 2012 survey, to provide a database on chronic non-communicable diseases and risk factors such as tobacco use, lack of physical activity, unhealthy nutrition, obesity, hypertension, increased blood glucose and increased blood fat.

The survey will be carried out by visiting more than 8,500