TY - JOUR
T1 - Health surveillance indicators for diet and physical activity
T2 - What is available in European data sets for policy evaluation?
AU - Stanley, Isobel
AU - Neumann-Podczaska, Agnieszka
AU - Wieczorowska-Tobis, Katarzyna
AU - Mensink, Gert B.M.
AU - Rosas, Lina Garnica
AU - Do, Stefanie
AU - Abu Omar, Karim
AU - Woods, Catherine
AU - Ahrens, Wolfgang
AU - Hebestreit, Antje
AU - Murrin, Celine
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association.
PY - 2022/8/1
Y1 - 2022/8/1
N2 - Background: Policies targeting diet and physical activity have the potential to improve health and well-being at a population level. However, the impact of these policies in Europe is currently unknown. Based on existing data, as well as on a needs assessment, we derived a catalogue of indicators that can be employed to evaluate such policies. These indicators may also inform the further development and harmonization of surveillance systems. Methods: Forty EU experts agreed on a list of key indicators and ranked their priority for future surveillance. We mapped these indicators onto variables provided by ongoing European surveillance systems. Using a Likert scale (well matched, somewhat matched, poorly matched, unmatched), we assessed the suitability of these variables as measures for the indicators. Results: Key indicators included behaviour outcome indicators relating to diet (n = 72) and physical activity and sedentary behaviour (n = 67) as well as upstream determinants of these behaviours. It was possible to map 72% of diet indicators and 86% of physical activity and sedentary behaviour indicators onto at least one variable in an ongoing surveillance system. Conclusions: Current monitoring and surveillance systems focus mainly on measuring 'downstream' indicators, while gaps exist in policy and environmental level data in dimensions such as inequality, funding and resources and governance.
AB - Background: Policies targeting diet and physical activity have the potential to improve health and well-being at a population level. However, the impact of these policies in Europe is currently unknown. Based on existing data, as well as on a needs assessment, we derived a catalogue of indicators that can be employed to evaluate such policies. These indicators may also inform the further development and harmonization of surveillance systems. Methods: Forty EU experts agreed on a list of key indicators and ranked their priority for future surveillance. We mapped these indicators onto variables provided by ongoing European surveillance systems. Using a Likert scale (well matched, somewhat matched, poorly matched, unmatched), we assessed the suitability of these variables as measures for the indicators. Results: Key indicators included behaviour outcome indicators relating to diet (n = 72) and physical activity and sedentary behaviour (n = 67) as well as upstream determinants of these behaviours. It was possible to map 72% of diet indicators and 86% of physical activity and sedentary behaviour indicators onto at least one variable in an ongoing surveillance system. Conclusions: Current monitoring and surveillance systems focus mainly on measuring 'downstream' indicators, while gaps exist in policy and environmental level data in dimensions such as inequality, funding and resources and governance.
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U2 - 10.1093/eurpub/ckac043
DO - 10.1093/eurpub/ckac043
M3 - Article
C2 - 35578830
AN - SCOPUS:85135501725
SN - 1101-1262
VL - 32
SP - 571
EP - 577
JO - European Journal of Public Health
JF - European Journal of Public Health
IS - 4
ER -