title: [Evaluation of the Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (SISVAN) in food and nutritional management services in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil].
abstract: The scope of this article is to evaluate the SISVAN as a tool for planning, management and evaluation of food and nutrition actions in primary healthcare in the Unified Health System (SUS). It involved a cross-sectional study composed of a stratified random sample of the municipalities in the State of Minas Gerais. The subjects of the research were municipal officials of SISVAN who filled out a structured questionnaire. Descriptive analysis of the data was performed with the construction of simple and bivariate tables. It was observed that those responsible for SISVAN, collect (50%) and input (55%) weight, height, and food consumption data; whereas 53%, 59% and 71% do not analyze and do not recommend or perform nutrition actions, respectively. This being the case, most of those responsible do not use the information for planning, management and evaluation of food and nutrition traits. The findings show that the SISVAN is not used to its full potential; the data generated have not been used for planning, management and evaluation of nutrition services in primary healthcare in the SUS.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Administração e Planejamento em Saúde, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, mararolim@yahoo.com.br.
authors.forename: Mara Diana
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Rolim
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Administração e Planejamento em Saúde, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, mararolim@yahoo.com.br.
authors.forename: Sheyla Maria Lemos
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Lima
authors.affiliation: Centro de Saúde Escola Germano Sinval Faria, Ensp, Fiocruz, Brasil.
authors.forename: Denise Cavalcante
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: de Barros
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Administração e Planejamento em Saúde, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, mararolim@yahoo.com.br.
authors.forename: Carla Lourenço Tavares
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: de Andrade
mesh_terms: D001835:Body Weight; D001938:Brazil; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005502:Food; D006801:Humans; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D009752:Nutritional Status