Health Surveillance of Products. Control and supervision of goods, which are directly or indirectly related to health, considering all the steps and processes involved in the production, storage, distribution, transportation, marketing and consumption, including raw materials for technologies and equipments. . 1.00
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). . 0.81
Health Surveillance of Health Services. Monitoring of health services in order to control the operation of services, service delivery, physical hazards, chemical, biological and ensure the best practices in health care to patients. . 0.75
Health Surveillance System. The set of institutions, policies and methods that comprise the organizational and administrative structure of the governmental health surveillance. . 0.70
Public Health Surveillance. Surveillance, Public Health . The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data with the purpose of preventing or controlling disease or injury, or of identifying unusual events of public health importance, followed by the dissemination and use of information for public health action. (From Am J Prev Med 2011;41(6):636) . 0.68
Environmental Health Surveillance. Health Surveillance of Environments . Monitoring of the environment or the workplace to avoid risks to the environment and to health professionals and the exposed population, originated from the production, transportation, storage and use of substances, products and equipments. . 0.68
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. . 0.68
Surveillance of the Workers Health. VISAT . A continuous and systematic activity to detect, comprehend, research and analyze the determinants and constraints of health problems related to the work processes and environments in their technological, social, organizational and epidemiological aspects with the purpose of planning interventions to eliminate them or control them. . 0.66
