Doenças crônicas não transmissíveis: prevenção e controle dos fatores de riscos.

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze the main risk factors and prevention of NCDs as literature and as specific goals list the measures to prevent and check the health habits related to risk factors. This subject of scientific study deserves careful reflection and continuous, both because it is matter within the public health and by low production of national scientific studies in this regard. This bibliographical study was developed by the procedure of consultation and research literature. For both the definition of key terms: NCD, Risk Factors, Health Supplements, Monitoring, Surveillance, were employed in the search for scientific articles and theoretical. For this we used the computerized bibliographic system through pages belonging to the organs and systems of indexing bibliographic databases online, based on papers found in the database The Scientific Electronic Library Online - SciELO that covers major publications of national literature in the area of health sciences, as well as others: Google Scholar, Virtual Health Library's Public Bireme / PAHO / WHO. For the literature review the authors studied were unanimous in affirming the importance of prevention and protection of the risk factors for chronic diseases, to improve the quality of life of the general population. The present study showed that the system for monitoring risk factors for NCDs from telephone interviews (VIGITEL) can achieve good performance in Brazilian urban areas, whether as aspects related to the representativeness of the sample of subjects studied, either in terms of cost and agility of the system, the system being the most VIGITEL used to monitor and run the data from these action plan to face these pathologies.