Atenção primária à saúde infantil: a maior avaliação de base populacional da história do SUS / Primary child health care: the largest population-based assessment in the history of Brazilian National Health System

Resumo Desde 2019, o IBGE vem ocupando no cenário da avaliação de políticas públicas no Brasil um local de protagonismo. Após a Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde (PNS) avaliar os serviços de atenção primária no Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) prestados aos adultos, em 2022 a Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNAD-C) investigou o cuidado infantil. Para isso, utilizou uma das versões do Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT), desenvolvido e disseminado por Starfield e Shi para avaliar a existência e extensão dos atributos dos serviços de atenção primária à saúde (APS). O público-alvo pesquisado incluiu crianças menores de 13 anos, e os questionários foram respondidos por seus responsáveis/cuidadores. Contemplou todas as 27 unidades da federação do país, em amostras aleatórias probabilísticas, desdobrando-se ainda pelas regiões metropolitanas e capitais do Brasil. Trata-se do maior inquérito domiciliar sobre avaliação da saúde infantil já realizado no Brasil. A partir da PNS-2019 e da PNAD-C em 2022, o IBGE inaugura seu maior legado para a atenção primária à saúde no Brasil no que se refere à avaliação dos usuários do SUS, com todas as unidades da federação (re)conhecendo como a sociedade brasileira avalia os serviços de saúde no primeiro nível de atenção.

Abstract The IBGE has been playing a leading role in the public policy evaluation in Brazil since 2019. After the National Health Survey (PNS) evaluated primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS) provided to adults, in 2022, the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD-C) investigated child health. To this end, it adopted one version of the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT), developed and disseminated by Starfield and Shi to assess the existence and extent of the attributes of PHC services. The target audience surveyed included children under 13 years of age, and the questionnaires were answered by their guardians/caregivers. It included all the 27 federative units of the country in random probabilistic samples, also unfolding in the Brazilian metropolitan regions and capitals. This is the largest household survey on child health assessment ever conducted in Brazil. With the PNS-2019 and the PNAD-C in 2022, IBGE inaugurates its greatest legacy for Brazilian primary health care regarding the evaluation of SUS users, with all federative units recognizing and understanding how Brazilian society evaluates health services at the first level of care.

Primary Care Asssement Tool: diferenças regionais a partir da Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística / Primary Care Assessment Tool: regional differences based on the National Health Survey from Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística

Resumo Em 2019, o Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) de forma inédita entre os institutos oficiais de estatística em todo o mundo, incluiu um módulo especial sobre avaliação da atenção primária à saúde em seu principal inquérito populacional de base domiciliar, a Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde (PNS). O inquérito considerou a versão reduzida do instrumento Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT), desenvolvida e disseminada por Starfield e Shi para avaliar a existência e extensão das características de estrutura e processos dos serviços de atenção primária em saúde. Trata-se da maior amostra probabilística com o uso desse instrumento já realizada em um único país do mundo que entrevistou usuários com 18 anos ou mais (n = 9.677). Os resultados dos escores gerais do PCAT do Brasil (5,9 [5,8; 5,9]) apontam grandes contrastes regionais e intraregionais, com a região Sul do país destacando-se com as melhores avaliações dos serviços de atenção primária (escore geral = 6,3 [6,2; 6,5]) e a região norte, por outro lado, com as menores (escore geral = 5,5 [5,3; 5,7]). Foram também observadas diferenças estatisticamente significantes e mais favoráveis entre os moradores de domicílios cadastrados pelas equipes de saúde da família, entre os mais idosos e entre que mais utilizam os serviços de saúde (adultos com morbidades referidas).

Abstract In 2019, unprecedentedly among the official statistical institutes worldwide, the IBGE included a particular module on evaluating primary health care in its central population-based population survey, the National Health Survey (PNS-2019). The survey considered the reduced version of the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT), developed and disseminated by Starfield and Shi, to assess the existence and extent of the structure and process characteristics of PHC services. It is the most significant probabilistic sample using this instrument ever conducted in a single country in the world that interviewed users aged 18 or over (n=9,677). The results of the Brazilian overall PCAT scores (5.9 [5.8; 5.9]) point to significant regional and intraregional contrasts, with the South of the country standing out with the best evaluations of primary care services (overall score = 6.3 [6.2; 6.5]) and the North with the worse (overall score = 5,5 [5,3; 5,7]). There were also statistically significant and more favorable differences between residents of households registered by family health teams, among older adults, and those using health services the most (adults with reported morbidities).

Primary Care Asssement Tool (PCAT): a construção de uma nova linha de base para avaliação dos serviços de saúde no Brasil / Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT): developing a new baseline for evaluating Brazilian health services

Resumo No Brasil, no âmbito do SUS, a APS ganhou relevância a partir da estruturação da Estratégia Saúde da Família entre as décadas de 1990/2000. Existem inúmeros instrumentos para a avaliação desses serviços no mundo. Dentre eles, destaca-se a família de instrumentos do Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT), desenvolvida e disseminada por Starfield e Shi para avaliar a existência e extensão das características dos serviços de atenção primária em saúde. Reforçando a importância do uso desse instrumento no Brasil, o Ministério da Saúde publicou em 2020, uma nova edição da versão brasileira que informa a metodologia utilizada, resgatando o papel do IBGE como grande avaliador externo do SUS. O IBGE incluiu de forma pioneira em seu principal inquérito amostral domiciliar, a Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde, um módulo de perguntas da versão reduzida do PCAT para usuários adultos. Os principais resultados globais encontrados (escore geral=5,9) informam que aqueles que mais utilizam os serviços de APS (adultos com morbidades referidas), são também os que avaliam mais positivamente tais serviços. Também foram observadas diferenças entre os moradores de domicílios cadastrados pelas equipes de Saúde da Família, entre os que recebem visitas de agentes comunitários e agentes de endemias e, por faixa etária (os mais idosos avaliam de forma mais positiva os serviços).

Abstract In Brazil, within the SUS, Primary Health Care (PHC) gained relevance from the Family Health Strategy's structuring from the 1990s to the 2000s. Several instruments are available in the world to evaluate PHC services, including the family of instruments of the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT), developed and disseminated by Starfield & Shi to assess the existence and extent of the features of primary health care services. Reinforcing the importance of using this instrument in Brazil, the Ministry of Health published in 2020 a new edition of the Brazilian version that informs the methodology used for such instruments, reviving the role of IBGE as a significant external evaluator of the SUS. The IBGE pioneered in its primary household random sample survey, the National Health Survey, a question-based module of the reduced version of the PCAT for adult users. The leading global results found for Brazil (overall PCAT score=5.9) inform that those who use PHC services (adults with referred morbidities) the most are also those who evaluate these services most positively. Differences were also observed among the residents of households registered by the family health teams, those receiving visits from the community and endemic workers, and age groups (older people evaluate services more positively).

Análisis de factores asociados a la asistencia a citas médicas preventivas. El caso de Bogotá, Colombia 2014

bjetivo: analizar los factores asociados a la asistencia a citas médicas preventivas en la ciudad de Bogotá en el año 2014.Métodos: se ajustaron dos modelos de Ecuaciones de Estimación Generalizadas (GEE) con función de enlace Bernoulli y estructuras de correlación independiente y simétrica compuesta para la variable de asistencia a citas médicas preventivas.Resultados: el nivel de ingreso, el estrato socioeconómico y el nivel educativo alcanzado por el jefe de hogar generan un aumento en la probabilidad de asistir a citas médicas preventivas: la razón de probabilidad de asistencia y no asistencia es por lo menos 1,5 veces mayor en miembros de hogares de estratos distintos al 1 y por cada 100 mil pesos adicionales en el ingreso mensual del hogar dicha razón se incrementa en 1 %. Aquellos miembros pertenecientes a hogares, cuyo jefe alcanzó un nivel educativo superior a primaria tienen una razón de probabilidad de asistencia y no asistencia a citas preventivas hasta 2,3 veces mayor.Conclusiones: los resultados coinciden con los de Grossman (1972) y Kenkel (1990); sin embargo, aspectos como el nivel educativo individual, la presencia de adultos mayores e infantes o inclusive de un cónyuge en el hogar no están relacionados con la asistencia a citas médicas preventivas.

bjective: Analyze factors involved in preventive medical appointments attendance in Bogota year 2014.Methods: two models were adjusted under GEE using a Bernoulli link function with independent and exchangeable correlation structures for preventive medical appointments attendance.Results: Income and socioeconomic stratum increase probability of preventive appointments attendance: Odds ratio of attendance and not attendance is at least 1,5 times higher in stratum 2 or higher households. Also, for every $100.000 additional pesos in monthly household income the reason increases by 1%. Household members which head reached an educational level higher than primary have an odds ratio of attendance and not attendance up to 2,3 times higher.Conclusions: Results are similar to Grossman (1972) and Kenkel (1990) nevertheless, individual educational level, presence in household of elder people or children and even presence of spouse are not related with preventive medical appointments attendance.

Incidencia del gasto catastrófico en salud de los hogares costarricenses 2004 y 2013

bjetivo: identificar el porcentaje de hogares cuyos desembolsos por concepto del gasto de bolsillo pueden llegar a constituirse en una catástrofe financiera (30 o 40%del ingreso familiar).Métodos:se utiliza el módulo de Equidad y Protección Financiera del software ADePT, del Grupo de Investigación y Desarrollo del Banco Mundial, así como una serie de rutinas programables que replican la metodología de análisis del gasto catastrófico del estudio desarrollado por Knaul, Wong, y Arreola-Ornelas (2012).Resultados: la incidencia de gasto catastrófico se incrementó levemente al pasar de un 0.6 % de los hogares en el año 2004 a un 0.8 % en el 2013.Conclusiones:la incidencia del gasto catastrófico en salud de los hogares costarricenses no representa un problema para el sistema de salud costarricense, pero es un aspecto que debe focalizarse a sus características estructurales.

bjetive: Identify the percentage of households whose out-of-pocket expenditures turn out to be a financial catastrophe (thirty to forty percent of household income).Methods: The World Bank's Research and Development Group Equity and Financial Protection module ADePT software is used along with a series of programmable routines that replicate the catastrophic expenditure analysis methodology of the study developed by Knaul, Wong, and Arreola-Ornelas (2012).Results: The incidence of catastrophic expenditure increased slightly from 0.6 percent of households in 2004 to 0.8 percent in 2013.Conclusions: The incidence of catastrophic health expenditure in Costa Rican households is not a problem for the Costa Rican health system, but the concern should be issue targeted.

A distribuição de renda nas pesquisas domiciliares brasileiras: harmonização e comparação entre Censos, PNADs e POFs / /Income distribution according to Brazilian household surveys: harmonization and comparison of Census, PNAD and POF data / /La distribución del ingreso en las encuestas de hogares brasileñas: armonización y comparación entre los censos, las PNAD y las POF

O objetivo deste trabalho é documentar e explicar as diferenças nas distribuições de renda do Censo Demográfico, da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) e da Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares (POF). A principal hipótese é a de que é possível promover grande convergência dos resultados entre as três pesquisas com procedimentos de harmonização ex post, que compatibilizam, na medida do possível, diferenças amostrais, conceituais e de coleta e tratamento dos dados. Os resultados confirmam, em boa medida, esta hipótese: de modo geral, a harmonização aproxima as três pesquisas e reduz significativamente as maiores discrepâncias entre as distribuições de renda, em especial na comparação entre Censo e PNAD. Embora persistam em alguns casos diferenças quanto aos níveis de renda, desigualdade e pobreza, sua evolução ao longo do tempo torna-se muito semelhante nas três pesquisas. Por fim, observa-se também que as discrepâncias remanescentes seguem um padrão, ou seja, mesmo após a harmonização, a distribuição de renda na PNAD tende a ser um pouco mais igualitária do que no Censo e na POF: os rendimentos dos mais pobres são mais altos e os dos mais ricos, mais baixos...

The aim of this paper is to document and explain the differences in income distribution in three Brazilian household surveys: the Demographic Census, the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD - Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios) and the Family Budgets Survey (POF - Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares). The main hypothesis is that it is possible to achieve great convergence of results in the aforementioned surveys with ex post harmonization procedures that minimize, as far as possible, discrepancies in sampling design, in concepts, and in data collection and treatment. The results confirm, to a large extent, this hypothesis: in general, harmonization approximates the three surveys and significantly reduces the major discrepancies between income distributions, in particular concerning Census vs. PNAD comparisons. Although, in some cases, differences persist in the levels of income, inequality and poverty, their tendencies over time become remarkably similar in the three surveys. Finally, it is observed that the remaining discrepancies follow a pattern: even after harmonization, income distribution in PNADs tends to be a little more egalitarian than in Censuses and in POFs, that is, the poorest families have higher incomes and the richest families have lower incomes...

El objetivo de este trabajo es documentar y explicar las diferencias en la distribución del ingreso que surgen del censo demográfico, la Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) y la Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares (POF). La hipótesis principal que se propone es que es posible promover una gran convergencia de los resultados entre las tres encuestas con los procedimientos de armonización ex post, que compatibilizan, en la medida de lo posible, las diferencias muestrales, conceptuales y de recogida y tratamiento de los datos. Los resultados confirman en buena medida esta hipótesis: de modo general, la armonización aproxima las tres encuestas y reduce significativamente las mayores discrepancias entre las distribuciones del ingreso, especialmente cuando se comparan el censo y la PNAD. Aunque en algunos casos persisten las diferencias en los niveles del ingreso, la desigualdad y la pobreza, su evolución en el tiempo llega a ser muy similar en las tres encuestas. Por último, también se observó que las discrepancias remanentes siguen un patrón, es decir, incluso después de la armonización, la distribución del ingreso en la PNAD tiende a ser un poco más igualitaria que en el censo y en la POF: en ese instrumento, los ingresos de los más pobres son más altos y los de los más ricos, más bajos...

Epidemiological investigation on envenomation: from theory to practice

A better understanding of the epidemiology of envenoming would improve care, provided that the survey is representative, reliable and accurate. Several types of surveys could help to clarify the incidence, severity, circumstances, factors and determinants of envenomations. The relevant information may be collected and analyzed from hospital records or case report forms (for retrospective studies) or established from a protocol of longitudinal observation of cases attended at health facilities during a given period (prospective study). The household survey includes interviewing all or part of the population of a locality with a standardized questionnaire to obtain information on the circumstances of the accident. Finally, standardized questionnaires can be administered to health workers in order to ascertain the circumstances and procedures of care, the availability and use of treatment and the level of knowledge of agents. Correctly performed, these surveys should promote the organization of the management of snakebites or scorpion stings because they identify the location of envenomation and quantify the needs. However, the surveyed localities should be chosen for relevance to be representative of the territory, just as methodology and analysis should be rigorous in order to give useful results.

Tendencias del consumo de drogas de 1998 a 2005 en tres ciudades de la zona norte de México: Ciudad Juárez, Monterrey y Tijuana / Trends of drug use 1998 to 2005 in three cities in the northern zone of Mexico: Ciudad Juarez, Monterrey and Tijuana

Drug use in Mexico has been on the rise since the 1970s. Nonetheless, this problem has exhibited important variations in the different regions of Mexico. To document these trends, the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente (INP) has performed household surveys on addictions in different Mexican cities. In the 1970s and early 1980s surveys were conducted in the following cities: Mexico City, La Paz, Baja California Sur; Mexicali, Baja California Norte; Monterrey, Nuevo León; San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí; and Puebla, Puebla, among others. The first national survey in urban population was carried out in 1 988, and was repeated in 1993 and 1998, while the first national survey to included rural population was conducted in 2002, which is being followed by another study currently in the field. The student population has also been extensively studied, and has been included in three national drug surveys and studies performed in different entities. Antecedents Results from these surveys show that drug use has not increased in a uniform fashion throughout the Mexican Republic and both student and household surveys have demonstrated higher rates in the northwestern region of the country comprising the states of Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahua, which have exhibited above-average drug use on comparison with the remaining regions of the country. The most frequently consumed drug by the population is marihuana. The 1988 national household survey registered a rising prevalence in use of 2.9% in Mexican population aged 12-65 years of individuals who had used drugs at some time during their lifetime; in 1993 this prevalence increased to 3.32% and in 1998 to 4.70%; while in 2002 the percentage demonstrated a slight decrease to 3.48%. In 1988, the second place in drug preferences of the population was inhalants with a prevalence of drug use at some time during their lifetime of 0.76%; by 1993, the second place was occupied by cocaine. Prevalence of use of the latter was 0.33% in 1988; by 1993, cocaine increased to 0.56% and to 1.45% in 1998, presenting a slight decrease in use in 2002 (1.23%). From 1988-2002 non-prescribed medical drugs consumed were found in the third place in population preference. Objective This article compared drug use rates observed in three cities on or near Mexico's northern border with the U. S.: Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua; Tijuana, Baja California Norte, and Monterrey, Nuevo León, were studied as part of the 1 998 national survey on addictions by selecting independent representative samples of these localities and with a new survey of these entities in 2005. Method The 1998 national survey of addictions was carried out in a representative sample of Mexican urban population (in localities of 2500 inhabitants). Independent samples were drawn from inhabitants living in several cities throughout Mexico. In this article we report the drug-use trends for three of these cities (Ciudad Juarez, Monterrey and Tijuana) by comparing the rates observed in 1998 with the results of a new wave of household surveys conducted in 2005 in the same cities using comparable methodology. Samples in both periods included population 12-65 years of age residing in households. Sample design was stratified by means of the following: several stages with localities (Áreas Geoestadísticas Básicas, AGEBS, its acronym in Spanish, census tracts); blocks of houses within the selected localities; segments of houses within sample blocks, and one individual per household as the selection unit in each stage. Sample size in Tijuana was 466 and 553 in 1998 and 2005, respectively, while sample sizes for Ciudad Juarez were 472 in 1998 and 606 in 2005, and for Monterrey this was 637 in 1998 and 675 in 2005, and the non-response rate was 23% in 1 998 and 20.3% in 2005. Instruments for obtaining information employed in both time frames considered were similar. Two types of questionnaires were administered: a household questionnaire that included sociodemographic information on all household inhabitants in the sample and their housing conditions and an standardized individual questionnaire administered in a face-to-face interview that collected information on the following: prevalence and use patterns of tobacco, alcohol, five types of illegal drugs (marihuana, cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, amphetamine-type stimulants and other drugs); four types of medical pharmaceuticals utilized without a prescription (narcotics, stimulants, tranquilizers and sedatives), determining consequences and services utilization. In this article tobacco and alcohol use is not reported. This questionnaire has been extensively tested and used in previous surveys. Interviewers were persons academically prepared in the Social Sciences and trained in the logistics of the several survey stages and extensively supervised during field work. Results Highest rates of use were observed in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez in contrast with Monterrey, which had lower rates. When use of any drug was considered, an increase in lifetime use from 1998-2005 was observed in all three cities; when use during the past year was contemplated, an increase was observed from 1998-2005 from 2.8-4.8% in the case of Ciudad Juarez and in Monterrey from 1.3%-2.0%, while these rates for Tijuana decreased from 5.4%-4.01%. Reports of use during the previous month fell in Tijuana from 4.4%-2.81 % and in Monterrey this decreased from 1.1 %-0.71 %, while in Ciudad Juarez drug use rates during the previous month increased from 2.4%-3.24%. It is important to mention that there was no statistical significance in any of the different prevalences types. Lifetime use of medical drugs without prescription increased in Tijuana and in Monterrey, while in Ciudad Juarez this remained stable from 1998-2005. In 2005, use of medical drugs decreased in Ciudad Juarez from 1.2%-0.88% and in Tijuana from 1.3%-1 .28%, while in Monterrey no use was detected in 1998, but 0.48% of interviewees did reported drug use in 2005. Previous-month use increased in Tijuana from 0.7%-1 .28% and in Monterrey this ranged from no use in 1998 to 0.48% by contrast in Ciudad Juarez previous-month drug use fell from 1.2-0.88%. In referring only to use of any illegal drug (excluding medical pharmaceutical), lifetime use increased in all three cities from 1998-2005; lifetime use doubled in Monterrey and Ciudad Juarez, while use during the previous year decreased in Tijuana from 4.4%-3.25% and increased in Ciudad Juarez from 1.6%-3.98% and in Monterrey from 1.3%-1 .52%. Prior-month increased in Ciudad Juarez from 1.2%-2.42%, while this exhibited a decrease in Tijuana from 3.9%-2.05% and in Monterrey from 1.1%-0.23%. Data also indicate that a high proportion of individuals in Monterrey have used only one drug; these percentages rose in the 1998-2005 period from 3.7%-8.96% numbers of the poly-drug users doubled in Tijuana from 4%-8.44% and in Ciudad Juarez from 3.2%-7.43%; in Tijuana this was due to an increase among males, and in Ciudad Juarez the number of poly-drug users increased in both genders.

El consumo de drogas en México ha ido en aumento. En la década de 1970, el Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría realizó las primeras encuestas de hogares sobre el tema de las adicciones en población de distintas ciudades del país: la Ciudad de México, La Paz, B.C.S.; Mexicali, B.C.; Monterrey, N.L.; San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., y Puebla, Pue, entre otras y ha documentado las tendencias del problema y sus variaciones regionales. A nivel nacional se han realizado en hogares cuatro encuestas en 1988, en 1993, en 1998 y en 2002, denominadas <>. Asimismo se han levantado tres encuestas nacionales sobre drogas entre la población estudiantil, las cuales han dado cuenta de que el consumo de drogas no se ha incrementado de manera uniforme en el país, sino que tanto en las encuestas estudiantiles como entre las de adicciones ha resaltado la zona noroccidental, conformada por estados como Baja California, Sonora y Chihuahua, donde se tienen las mayores cifras de consumo de drogas en la República Mexicana. Las encuestas de adicciones indican que la droga que más ha consumido alguna vez en la vida la población urbana de 12 a 65 años es la mariguana, con los siguientes porcentajes: en 1988, 2.99%; en 1993, 3.32%; en 1998, 4.70%; y en la medición de 2002 disminuyó ligeramente a 3.48%. En 1988, el segundo lugar lo ocupaban los inhalables con 0.76%, pero en las demás mediciones ocupa este lugar la cocaína, con 0.56% en 1 993; 1.45% en 1998 y en 2002, 1.23%. En el tercer lugar se encuentran las drogas médicas consumidas sin prescripción desde 1988 hasta 2002. Este artículo presenta una comparación de las prevalencias de uso de drogas en tres ciudades de la Encuesta Nacional de Adicciones de 1998 con respecto a la Encuesta de ciudades de 2005 de las tres ciudades siguientes: Ciudad Juárez, Monterrey y Tijuana. La Encuesta Nacional de Adicciones de 1998 se realizó en una muestra representativa de la población urbana de todo el país (en localidades de más de 2500 habitantes). En esta encuesta, las 32 entidades del país se dividieron en tres regiones y también se obtuvieron muestras en ciudades fronterizas que fueron: Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez y Matamoros y en tres zonas metropolitanas que fueron: La ciudad de México, Guadalajara y Monterrey. La muestra fue de 12015 entrevistas completas. La encuesta de ciudades de 2005 se realizó en cuatro ciudades que fueron: Querétaro, Monterrey, Ciudad Juárez y Tijuana. Sin embargo, para efectos de este trabajo, solamente se comparan las tres últimas. Las dos encuestas tuvieron como objetivo a la población de 12 a 65 años de edad. En ambas se aplicaron dos cuestionarios: el de hogar con datos socioeconómicos y otro individual, cuyas secciones de consumo de drogas fueron iguales. El muestreo en ambas encuestas fue multietápico, probabilístico y estratificado, y en la última etapa se seleccionó a un individuo de cada hogar con un rango de edad de 12 a 65 años. Se obtuvo una no respuesta de 23% en 1998 y de 20.3% en 2005.

Os Suplementos Saúde na Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) no Brasil / Health supplements in the Brazilian National Household Survey - PNAD

As mudanças socioeconômicas, demográficas e tecnológicas e suas implicações nas políticas públicas demandam dos órgãos governamentais a produção de informações. As informações atualizadas de base populacional e de âmbito nacional são essenciais ao processo de planejamento e ao acompanhamento pela sociedade do cumprimento dos princípios constitucionais da saúde, como direito ao acesso igualitário aos serviços de saúde. A Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) é uma fonte de dados importante para o conhecimento e monitoramento de aspectos relevantes da situação de saúde da população brasileira e do acesso, utilização e financiamento de serviços de saúde. Neste artigo, faz-se um breve histórico da evolução dos objetivos, da periodicidade e da abrangência geográfica ao longo de quatro décadas da PNAD no Brasil, enfatizando-se os principais aspectos incluídos nos suplementos de saúde em 1981, 1986, 1998 e 2003. A produção de textos técnicos e acadêmicos, gerados a partir desses suplementos, tem permitido conhecer aspectos importantes da saúde da população brasileira e monitorar, em diferentes recortes geográficos e socioeconômicos, as políticas voltadas para o acesso e uso de serviços de saúde. Argumenta-se sobre a necessidade de iniciar uma discussão mais profunda sobre a continuidade da série histórica iniciada em 1998, frente à implantação, em futuro próximo, do Sistema Integrado de Pesquisas Domiciliares (SIPD) pelo IBGE.