Subject area:	Medicine and Dentistry
More specific subject area:	Public Health, Nutritional and Lifestyle determinants
Name of the reviewed methodology:	Methodological review of existing instruments and health determinants scales and development of a new comprehensive instrument.
Keywords:	Health Determinants, Methodological Review, Nutrition, Spanish Population, Scale Validation
Resource availability:	A. Bach, L. Serra-Majem, J.L. Carrasco, et al. The use of indexes evaluating the adherence to the Mediterranean diet in epidemiological studies: a review, Public Health Nutr 9 (2006) 132–146. https://doi.org/10.1079/PHN2005936.
Review question:	•To what extent do existing tools in the literature allow for a comprehensive and multidimensional study of the health status within a population? •Is the creation of a comprehensive tool capable of effectively describing the health status of a population feasible?