Health Surveillance. Health Control . Sanitary Surveillance . Sanitary Vigilance . Sanitation Vigilance . A set of measures that are capable of eliminating, reducing or preventing health risks and of intervening in sanitation problems resulting from the environment, production and transportation of goods and the rendering of services that are of interest to health. Note: Health surveillance (or sanitation, or vigilance) includes: (i) control of consumption goods that are directly or indirectly related to health, in all stages of production and consumption; (ii) control over the rending of services that are directly or indirectly related to health (Law 8080 of September 19, 1990, Brazil). . 0.69
Health Surveillance System. The set of institutions, policies and methods that comprise the organizational and administrative structure of the governmental health surveillance. . 0.60
Nutritive Sweeteners. Artificial Sweeteners, Nutritive . Sweeteners, Nutritive . Any agent that adds not only sweet taste but some energy value to food. They include natural sugars such as SUCROSE; FRUCTOSE; and GALACTOSE; and certain SUGAR ALCOHOLS. . 0.59
State Health Surveillance Centers. Centers for the sanitary control in accordance with the health rules laid down by the national health surveillance. . 0.59
Health Surveillance Services. Services monitoring the quality of goods, products, services, procedures and activities of interest to health, environment and work environment, organized in five nuclei, which correspond to similar areas, namely: food, environment, medicine, health worker and health services. . 0.57
