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Temporal trend of Food and Nutrition Surveillance System coverage among children under 5 in the Northern Region of Brazil, 2008-2017* * This article is derived from the Ph.D. thesis entitled ‘Temporal trend of Food and Nutrition Surveillance System coverage among children under five years old in the Northern Region of Brazil, 2008-2017’, submitted by Ester Mourão to the University of São Paulo Faculty of Public Health (FSP/USP) Nutrition in Public Health Postgraduate Program in 2019.

Abstract

Objective

to analyze the temporal trend of Web Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (SISVAN Web) coverage of children under 5 years old in the Northern Region of Brazil between 2008-2017.

Methods

this was an ecological time series study with data from SISVAN Web; coverage annual percentage change (APC) was estimated using the Prais-Winsten regression model.

Results

SISVAN Web coverage in the Northern Region in 2008 and 2017 was 12.2% and 37.9%, respectively, with a rising trend (APC=14.2% – 95%CI 10.9;17.6); the states and health regions showed similar trends; Acre was the state with the highest APC (17.3% – 95%CI 13.6;21.1).

Conclusion

there was a rising trend in SISVAN Web coverage in the Northern Region as a whole, in all its states and in all its health regions.

Health Services Coverage; Information Systems; Public Health Surveillance; Nutritional Surveillance; Time Series Studies

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