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Humanity entered the new millennium with unprecedented challenges on a planetary scale.

The soaring global popularity of electronic and electrical devices, from computers to cell phones to heavy appliances, combines with ineffective waste management and disposal, is triggering a crisis of e-waste health risks to which millions of children as well as women of childbearing age, are exposed.

The American Samoa NCD STEPS survey was a population-based nation-wide cross-sectional assessment of key chronic diseases and their risk factors in adults aged 25 - 64 years. It was carried out from June to August 2004 using the WHO STEPS surveillance methodology and questionnaires.