Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

Vigilância Sanitária

English translation:

Health Surveillance

Added to glossary by Nina_PT
Oct 29, 2011 17:48
13 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

Vigilância Sanitária

Portuguese to English Other Food & Drink Vigilância Sanitária
Vigilância Sanitária, just the term, there's no context.
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Nov 5, 2011 09:08: Nina_PT Created KOG entry

Discussion

Nina_PT Oct 30, 2011:
You're right Martin, That is the reason why I left the 'public' out, it could be just as well related to animal husbandry... who knows?
Martin Riordan Oct 29, 2011:
Muriel... Denis has said that there is no other context, so presumably he has been asked to translate just these two words. This means the interpretation is completely open - it may be public, private, human, animal. It makes it a bit difficult to give a confident translation!
Muriel Vasconcellos Oct 29, 2011:
Is this a sign somewhere? Part of a document? Are you translating a document? If the subject is human health, then it's '(public) health surveillance'; if it's about environmental sanitation, then it's 'sanitary surveillance'.

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Health Surveillance

Em muitos textos traduzidos do Brasil é muito usado 'Sanitary surveillance". No entanto, pelo número de hits do google p ex. nos EUA (apenas 44) penso ser 'Health Surveillance' o mais correcto.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Surveillance_Ag...

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Outros exemplos:

O site da própria ANVISA...
"The National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) was established by Law 9.782 , of January 26, 1999. The Agency is designated an autonomous..."
http://www.anvisa.gov.br/eng/index.htm

"Health surveillance and endocrine disruptors. Vigilância sanitária e desreguladores endócrinos. 1 Centro de Estudos da Saúde do Trabalhador e Ecologia ..."

"3 Oct 2011 – Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária - ANVISA (Health Surveillance National Agency) - Gerência de Infra-estrutura e Tecnologia (GITEC), "

"Acronym Finder: ANVISA stands for Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária ( National Health Surveillance Agency Brazil). This definition appears very rarely."

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=vigilânc...


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agree Christina Paiva
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Hygiene Control

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agree Georgia Morg (X)
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neutral Muriel Vasconcellos : Sorry, that expression isn't very common in the public health field. Internationally. I worked for WHO for 25 years.
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fair enough
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public health surveillance

*IF* this is about human health, then it's 'public health surveillance'. In the public health field, 'sanitario' is translated as 'public health'.You can't leave out 'public'. (I have worked for WHO and the Pan American Health Organization for over 30 years.)

BTW, there is ALWAYS context, even if it's a sign hanging over a health post in the wilderness. In that case, the setting is your context.

369,000 hits for 'public health surveillance'

Explanations and key links:

www.who.int/topics/public_health_surveillance/Cached
Public health surveillance is the continuous, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data needed for the planning, implementation, ...

www.dcp2.org/file/153/dcpp-surveillance.pdfSimilar
Public health surveillance provides real-time, early warning information to ... Public health surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and ...

www.nwcphp.org/training/.../introduction-to-public-health-s...
This module introduces public health surveillance concepts and principles for public health workers who have little or no prior training in epidemiology. You'll ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2745711Similar
by SB Thacker - 1989 - Cited by 75 - Related articles
Improved public health surveillance can lead to earlier implementation of prevention and control measures. Better surveillance data lead to a more rational ...
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Sanitary Surveillance

Just as valid as "Health Surveillance", I reckon it depends on the context at hand.

'Sanitary Surveillance' was more frequently used in veterinary epidemiology, although nowadays in my main line of work we tend to use something like "[disease name] surveillance" e.g. Bovine Tuberculosis Surveillance , HPAI (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza) Surveillance or Bovine Spongiform Encefalopathy Surveillance

Again, as it has been mentioned, context, context, context. Without it, there are numerous viable alternatives

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Here you can see both terms (sanitary surveillance and health surveillance) being used simultaneously in an official document

Warning, direct download of word file from the EC website

ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/tbt_repository/BRA171_EN_1_1.DOC
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