Cuarta encuesta nacional de factores de riesgo. Visión nefrológica de los principales resultados

Epidemiologic surveillance constitutes a fundamental tool for public health, given it provides reliable information at the right time to plan, implement and evaluate health policies at a local level as well as at a regional/national one. The National Health Surveillance System was developed both for communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases; the latter fall within the scope of chronic disease surveillance systems. The National Survey of Risk Factors, which is part of the Non-communicable Diseases Surveillance System and the Household Survey Integrated System, provides timely, reliable, valid information about risk factors (e.g. smoking, alcohol, diet, physical activity); attention processes in the health system and main NCD in the argentine population (hypertension, diabetes, obesity, among others).