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Environmental Profile of a Community's Health (EPOCH): An Instrument to Measure Environmental Determinants of Cardiovascular Health in Five Countries

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The environment in which people live is known to be important in influencing diet, physical activity, smoking, psychosocial and other risk factors for cardiovascular (CV) disease. However no instrument exists that evaluates communities for these multiple environmental factors and is suitable for use across different communities, regions and countries. This report describes the design and reliability of an instrument to measure …

Authors

Chow CK; Lock K; Madhavan M; Corsi DJ; Gilmore AB; Subramanian SV; Li W; Swaminathan S; Lopez-Jaramillo P; Avezum A

Journal

PLOS ONE, Vol. 5, No. 12,

Publisher

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0014294

ISSN

1932-6203