'STEPS' is recommended by WHO as a method for:
Surveillance of moality from communicable disease
Surveillance of risk factors for communicable diseases
Surveillance of moality from non communicable diseases
Surveillance of risk factors for non communicable diseases
From 2005, WHO introduced stepwise approach to surveillance of noncommunicable disease risk factors termed STEPS, as a pa of global surveillance strategy aiming to monitor emerging patterns and trends worldwide and contain and reduce noncommunicable diseases. Ref: Commonwealth Health Ministers Update, 2011 By Philip D Ose, Page 43; Epidemiology and Demography in Public Health By Japhet Killewo, Pages 99-100