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ARTIGO ARTICLE

Sistema de Vigilância Alimentar e Nutricional
(SISVAN) em crianças do Rio Grande do Sul,
Brasil: cobertura, estado nutricional e confiabilidade dos dados
Food and Nutritional Surveillance System (SISVAN) in children from Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil: coverage, nutritional status, and data reliability
Patrícia Kluwe Viégas Damé 1
Márcia Regina de Oliveira Pedroso 1
Clarissa Lapenda Marinho 1
Veralice Maria Gonçalves 2
Bruce Bartholow Duncan 1
Paul Douglas Fisher 1
Ana Leonisa Coronel Romero 3
Teresa Gontijo de Castro 4

Faculdade de Medicina,
Universidade Federal do Rio
Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre,
Brasil.
2 Departamento de
Informática do SUS, Porto
Alegre, Brasil.
3 1 a Coordenadoria Regional de Saúde, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
4 Departamento de
Enfermagem MaternoInfantil e Saúde Pública,
Universidade Federal de
Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte,
Brasil.
1

Correspondência
T. G. Castro
Departamento de Enfermagem
Materno-Infantil e Saúde
Pública, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
Av. Alfredo Balena 190, Belo
Horizonte, MG 30130-100,
Brasil.
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Abstract

Introdução

This study aimed to evaluate: the coverage of the Food and Nutritional Surveillance System
(SISVAN) in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and it Regional Health Offices in 2006; the nutritional status of children 0-10 years of age; and the reliability of data on nutritional status recorded in the system. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with secondary data on
63,320 children. Coverage was defined as the proportion of children younger than 10 years covered by the Family Health Strategy in the State’s various municipalities (counties). Height-for-age
(H/A) and body mass index for age (BMI/A) were classified according to World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. Agreement between the nutritional classifications recorded in the system and those calculated in this study was evaluated with the