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Vigilância Sanitária

English translation: Health Surveillance

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Portuguese term or phrase:Vigilância Sanitária
English translation:Health Surveillance
Entered by: Nina_PT

17:48 Oct 29, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Food & Drink / Vigilância Sanitária
Portuguese term or phrase: Vigilância Sanitária
Vigilância Sanitária, just the term, there's no context.
Denis Paolillo
Brazil
Local time: 09:41
Health Surveillance
Explanation:
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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Nina_PT
Local time: 13:41
Grading comment
thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3Health Surveillance
Nina_PT
4 +1Hygiene Control
Nick Taylor
3 +1Health Department
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
4public health surveillance
Muriel Vasconcellos
4Sanitary Surveillance
Tiago Neto


Discussion entries: 4





  

Answers


18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Health Department


Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_department

Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  T o b i a s: Highly probable
9 days
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Health Surveillance


Explanation:
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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Note added at 39 mins (2011-10-29 18:28:05 GMT)
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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...




Nina_PT
Local time: 13:41
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Christina Paiva
13 hrs
  -> Obrigada Christina!
agree  Lidia Carney
1 day 32 mins
  -> Cheers Lídia!
agree  Valmir Martins da Silva Junior
1 day 20 hrs
  -> Obrigada Valmir!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Hygiene Control


Explanation:
Hygiene Control

Nick Taylor
Local time: 13:41
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 40

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Georgia Morg (X)
5 mins
  -> thanks Georgina
neutral  Muriel Vasconcellos: Sorry, that expression isn't very common in the public health field. Internationally. I worked for WHO for 25 years.
13 mins
  -> fair enough
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
public health surveillance


Explanation:
*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 ...

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 05:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Sanitary Surveillance


Explanation:
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


    Reference: http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?pid=S1415-790X20050001000...
Tiago Neto
Germany
Local time: 14:41
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in EnglishEnglish
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