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Previous chapters of this book have stressed the growing interest in continuously monitoring and comparing distributions of health determinants across populations to better inform public health workers and guide needed actions. Several authors have pointed to the need for a worldwide collection of survey data. We deal in this chapter with what appears to be a major paradox of global surveillance projects to date: data are currently available from many independent and locally based health studies, but the results cannot be directly compared across populations because of methodological variability.
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Morabia, A., Northridge, M.E., Beer-Borst, S., Hercberg, S., the EURALIM Study Group. (2003). Harmonising Local Health Survey Data. In: McQueen, D.V., Puska, P. (eds) Global Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0071-1_11
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