National Epidemiological Surveillance System (SINAVE)

Project Title:
National Epidemiological Surveillance System (SINAVE), a platform that allows knowing the behaviour of selected diseases on a weekly basis, in public and private establishments, supported by a network of laboratories in Public Health. Platform that generates useful information for the orientation of programs, the interventions required in the care of the suffering, risk situations that affect the community seriously and frequently. Since the creation of the SINAVE in 1995, the Single Information System for Epidemiological Surveillance (SUIVE) was established, with the purpose of systematizing morbidity and mortality information, with the participation of the whole sector.
SUIVE
The SUIVE generates homogenous information about health services in the different technical and administrative levels. This information concerns the occurrence, distribution in time, place and person, risk factors and consequences of diseases that affect the health of the population. It guides and supports the decision making for the design and implementation of plans and health programs throughout the country. This system relies on an online platform where 167 diseases subject to epidemiological surveillance; information is disseminated on a weekly basis through the official website of the General Direction for Epidemiology.
RHOVE
The Hospital Network for Epidemiological Surveillance (RHOVE) operates in the general and specialty hospitals, to meet their information needs regarding compulsory notifiable diseases and nosocomial infections. It currently operates in more than eighty hospital units.