Situação das principais doenças crônicas não transmissíveis e dos estilos de vida da população brasileira: Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde, 2013 e 2019

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Cad. Saúde Pública 2022; 38 Sup 1:e00276021 EDITORIAL EDITORIAL This article is published in Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, without restrictions, as long as the original work is correctly cited. The elderly population in Brazil has grown at a fast pace, due mainly to changes in socioeconomic development, urbanization, and healthcare in the last 30 years 1. Since the creation of the Brazilian Unified National Health System (SUS), Brazil has made considerable progress towards extending a series of social protections to the entire population. Such achievements feature nearly universal healthcare, with the expansion of primary care based on the prioritization of areas with more precarious living conditions 2. However, the significant growth in the Brazilian population's longevity has brought an increase in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which include a considerable degree of disability and worsening of quality of life, besides increasing the demand on health services 3. In this context monitoring NCDs and evaluating healthy behaviors, which are protective factors against NCDs, should be based on the periodic collection and analysis of reliabre and frequent data. This Supplement of CSP presents the status of the main noncommunicable diseases and lifestyles in the Brazilian population. The publication provides a summary of the strides made from 2013 to 2019 and identifies areas, groups, and health behaviors that require additional efforts. The edition's articles vary considerably in their methods and approaches, but they all use data from the Brazilian National Health Survey (PNS). Health surveys are essential tools for provining reliable information for guiding health policies to meet the population's needs and expectations in healthcare, health promotion, and prevention of diseases. In Brazil, the increasing need for information to formulate policies in areas of health promotion, surveillance, and healthcare at the national level led to the understanding that a national health survey would be necessary to meet the priorities of the Brazilian Ministry of Health 4. The development of the PNS began in 2009 and was based on four pillars: assessment of the national health system performance from the user's perspective; establishment of the Brazilian population health conditions; surveillance of noncommunicable diseases and health behaviors; and equity, involving the actions of the social determinants of health-socioeconomic, cultural, behavioral, and environmental factors that influence health 5 .