Table 5: Goals and indicators of public policies for addressing overweight in the Brazilian and Portuguese Health Care systems (in effect in 2019).

BRAZIL
Goals:
Halt the rise in obesity in adults by 2025 [42]
Increase the prevalence of physical activity during leisure time [42]
Increase the intake of fruit and vegetables [42]
Reduce the average intake of salt [42]
Reduce the intake of fatty meat [42]
Perform transversal assessment of body weight in the population [39, 76]
Monitor nutritional status in primary care [42, 76]
Assessment indicators:
Prevalence of overweight and obesity by age group (transversal data) [42]
Family food consumption (transversal data) [42]
Coverage of anthropometric and food consumption data on the Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (SISVAN) [42]
PORTUGAL
Goals:
Reduce the average salt content in main foods by 10% before 2020 [50]
Reduce the average sugar content in main foods by 10% before 2020 [50]
Reduce the fatty acid content in main foods by 2% before 2020 [50]
Increase the number of people who consume fruit and vegetables by 5% before 2020 [50]
Increase the number of people who know the Mediterranean diet by 20% before 2020 [50]
Control the incidence and prevalence of overweight and obesity in school-aged children – slow down their rise by 2020 [27, 50]
Assessment indicators:
Mortality related to obesity: number of deaths, death rate, standardized death rate, standardized death rate in people under 65, standardized death rate in people aged 65 and over, standardized death rate in people under 70, standardized death rate in people aged 70 and over [77]
Hospital care: users, discharge, length of hospital stay, day case, no day case, outpatient care cases, and deaths; related to localized adiposity: users, discharge, length of hospital stay, day case, no day case, outpatient care cases, and deaths; related to overweight and obesity-associated malignant neoplasm of colon/rectum, rectosigmoid junction and anus; related to overweight and obesity-associated malignant neoplasm of the breast; related to overweight and obesity-associated malignant neoplasm of the prostate; related to overweight and obesity-associated diabetes [77]
Prevalence of overweight between 19 and 64 years old [60, 77]
Prevalence of obesity between 19 and 64 years old [60, 77]
Prevalence of individuals with BMI (Body Mass Index) between 25-30 kg/m2 [60, 77]
Prevalence of individuals with BMI (Body Mass Index) of30 kg/m2 and above [60, 77]
Prevalence of Systemic Arterial Hypertension [60, 77]
Prevalence of consumption of breakfast, fruit, vegetables, sweets, soft drinks, coffee [77]
Regular physical activity [60]
Food insecurity [49, 77]
Salt and trans fats intake [77]
Users’ satisfaction [60]
Cardiovascular risk [60]
Prevalence of weight loss by 5 to 10% [61]