The health situation analyses HSA of the Pan American Health Organization PAHO, are analytic-synthetic processes involving a range of interpretations which allow the characterization, measurement and explanation of the health-disease profile of a population, including health problems and their determinants, whether arising from health or other sectors, facilitating the identification of needs and priorities in health interventions and appropriate programs, and evaluating their impact on health through the study of the interaction of living conditions and the existing level of health processes of a country or other geographical and political unit.
Los análisis de situación de salud ASIS según la Organización Panamericana de la Salud OPS, son procesos analítico-sintéticos que abarcan diversos tipos de interpretaciones y permiten caracterizar, medir y explicar el perfil de salud-enfermedad de una población, incluyendo los daños y problemas de salud, así como sus determinantes, sean éstos competencia del sector salud o de otros sectores.