Why is VHL essential?
Access to information is increasingly fundamental for those involved in health management activities that, in order to make decisions, need to expand their knowledge about the health status and living conditions of the population by means of searching and analyzing the information available. This information can be found in the most diverse formats and, not unusually, it is difficult to access and not sufficiently recognized and spread. Considerable time and resources are invested in research, but proportionally little is directed to ensure that their results are broadly known and implemented. The traditional form of spreading information, by means of reports and technical recommendations, is the most used approach by institutions in the promotion of the results accomplished and, because it is passive, not always does it find a correspondence in practice. For example, there is feeble evidence that monitoring childrens grow prevents starvation and death, even though health teams spend c
