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0191/2020 - PNAD COVID-19: A powerful new tool for public health surveillance in Brazil
PNAD COVID-19 – Um novo e poderoso instrumento para Vigilância em Saúde no Brasil

Author:

• Gerson Oliveira Penna - Penna, G.O - <gerson.penna@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8967-536X

Co-author(s):

• José Agenor Alvares da SIlva - SIlva, J.A.A - <agenoralvares@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8810-5066
• José Cerbino Neto - Cerbino Neto, J. - <cerbino@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9254-917X
• José Gomes Temporão - Temporão, JG - <jtemporao@uol.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7162-2905
• Luiz Felipe Pinto - Pinto, L.F. - <felipepinto.rio@medicina.ufrj.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9888-606X


Abstract:

On February 3, 2020, Brazilian Ministry of Health declared a state of emergency in public health of international importance due to the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. As a result, IBGE postponed the 2020 Demographic Census and started to formulate a PNAD COVID-19. The survey included a total sample of 349,000 people in about 200,000 households. Of the total Brazilian resident population, the IBGE estimated in May / 2020 that 24.0 million (11.4%) had at least one of the symptoms of flu-like syndrome (SG). Of this contingent, 20.2 million (84.3% of all symptomatic patients) did not seek health care. The innovations brought to health surveillance and the pioneering spirit of the IBGE demonstrate that it is possible, in a continental country that has been experiencing several local epidemics at different times in its territory, that other countries also develop similar household surveys, with weekly data collection ( referred to epidemiological weeks) by telephone in an innovative and timely manner. PNAD COVID-19 also brought a new technology to the Institute, rescuing the role of external evaluator of the Unified Health System (SUS).

Keywords:

household survey, COVID-19, Brazil

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Penna, G.O, SIlva, J.A.A, Cerbino Neto, J., Temporão, JG, Pinto, L.F.. PNAD COVID-19: A powerful new tool for public health surveillance in Brazil. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2020/Jul). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/pnad-covid19-a-powerful-new-tool-for-public-health-surveillance-in-brazil/17673?id=17673



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