AVALIAÇÃO DO ESTADO NUTRICIONAL COMO PREDITOR DE POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS: participação da academia

Abstract

The evaluation of the nutritional status is an essential management tool, subsidizing the planning, evaluation and execution of health actions. This way, the objective of this article is to rise and analyze studies where the nutritional statu s were utilized for the public policies evaluation. For this, was searched on the periodics portal and Capes theses and the words: Nutritional Status, Public Policies and Evaluation, identifying nineteen papers, after adopting the exclusion criterion , there where eleven, from those six were performed with children, outcome considered positive, for the follow up of the children nutritional status is essential to analyze the populations health condition. Yet it was observed that any study was realized in the North region, what is a concerning data, because it presents the highest percentage of low weight children in the country. It is considered essential to follow up the nutritional status in a constant and systematic way, enabling the planning and the development of public policies focused on enhancing the populations health profile.

Keywords

• nutritional status
• public policies
• evaluation