Monitoring system food and nutritionin children of Minas, Brazil: history, cover and nutritional status

Abstract

Food and nutrition are fundamental rights guaranteed to human consolidated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the Constitution and are basic requirements for the Health Promotion and Protection in Brazil this right is guided by the National Food andNutrition and conduct surveillance issues related to this theme, the System food and Nutrition Surveillance (SISVAN) was created in order to carry out the collection, processing and analysis of population groups on an ongoing basis in order to obtain a current diagnosis of food and nutrition situation and also their temporal trends , a process that began in 1968 and over time has been deepened. The present study aimed to lift the history SISVAN in Brazil and their situation in Minas Gerais and describe thenutritional status of children 0-5 years old accompanied by the system according to the W / A ratio and BMI / I. This was cross sectional study involving all children accompanied by SISVAN attended at primary health care in 2012 in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Of the 469 265 children evaluated and monitored by Web -SISVAN according to the index weight x age, 3.8 % have low and very low weight for age, 87.3 % had normal weight and 8.8 % are with high weight for age. As for the other parameters, 7.5 %are malnourished, 60.3 % normal weight, 17.4% at risk of overweight and 14.8 % overweight. Therefore, we can say that the more nutritional deviation found in the population in 2012 was accompanied by overweight and obesity profile also already found in other studies. Thus, the majority of the population needs intervention through welfare programs and public health, as in tracing the nutritional profile of children of Minas Gerais, the data serves as input for the start of implementation of actions to promote health and baseline for monitoring trends of underweight and overweight in this group.