Abstract
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 02 November 2021Sec. Children and Health https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.753342
Highlights
Public health surveillance is described as the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data essential to planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health policies strongly integrated with the opportune dissemination of these data to those responsible for prevention and control [1]
Birth defects surveillance programs can usually be classified into two main types: populationbased, which investigates birth defects among the whole population residing in a delimited geographic area, or hospital-based, which investigates birth defects in selected hospitals, maternity hospitals, or facilities, and which coverage corresponds to births or hospital admissions in these places [9]
Some regions report the prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome using data from their birth defects surveillance programs and eventually, they look for an association between alcohol consumption during pregnancy and birth defects [12, 22, 23]
Summary
Débora Gusmão Melo 1*, Maria Teresa Vieira Sanseverino 2,3, Thanyse de Oliveira Schmalfuss 4 and Mariela Larrandaburu 5.
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