title: Child Health Surveillance: nurses perspective.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to analyze conceptions of nurses on child health surveillance in family health units.
  
  
  METHODS
  a qualitative study with thematic analysis of the data, based on the paradigm of Health Surveillance. Interviews were conducted with 13 nurses in a countryside city in the state of Sao Paulo.
  
  
  RESULTS
  nurses conceived child health surveillance as an active monitoring, which should be comprehensive, identifying risks/vulnerabilities, through multidisciplinary and intersectoral actions that are dependent on maternal involvement. We found partial development of these assumptions in practice, due to difficulties such as lack of maternal involvement in the proposed actions, lack of time for discussion and adoption of measures in the units and disarticulation between levels and sectors of the city.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  a greater political and technical investment is needed to ensure the adoption of this model in different sectors and levels of care of the city.
authors: Programa em Enfermagem em Saúde Pública, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, BR.
authors: Marina Sayuri
authors: MS
authors: Yakuwa
authors: Fundação Uni Botucatu, Secretaria Municipal de Saúde, Botucatu, SP, BR.
authors: Mariana Claudio da Silva
authors: MC
authors: Sartori
authors: Programa em Enfermagem em Saúde Pública, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, BR.
authors: Débora Falleiros
authors: DF
authors: de Mello
authors: Departamento de Enfermagem, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Botucatu, SP, BR.
authors: Marli Teresinha Cassamassimo
authors: MT
authors: Duarte
authors: Departamento de Enfermagem, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Botucatu, SP, BR.
authors: Vera Lúcia Pamplona
authors: VL
authors: Tonete
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002648:Child; D000067576:Child Health; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009729:Nursing; D011159:Population Surveillance; D055815:Young Adult