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0018/2019 - Equidade de Acesso à Atenção Básica em Saúde Bucal.
A Framework for Equity Access to Primary Dental Care.

Author:

• Denise Silveira Antunes - Antunes, DS - <deni.atn@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0428-1738

Co-author(s):

• Sudeshni Naidoo - Naidoo, S - <suenaidoo@uwc.ac.za>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7424-8082
• Neil Myburgh - Myburgh, N - <nmyburgh@uwc.ac.za>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6427-2772
• Juliana Balbinot Hilgert - Hilgert, J.B. - <jhilgert@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2204-1634
• Paul Douglas Fisher - Fisher, PD - <paul.fisher@ufrgs.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6670-5033
• Fernando Neves Hugo - Hugo, F.N - <fernandoneveshugo@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2222-7719


Abstract:

Evidence-based waiting times are a crucial element to achieve equity of access to health services. Frameworks tailored for timely provision of primary dental care may support equitable allocation of dental staff. However, such frameworks were not found in the literature. The objective of this study was to demonstrate face validity with a novel resource allocation framework designed to maximize equity into dental booking systems. The study was carried out in 2014. Eleven experts in primary dental care practice in Southern Brazil participated, using a three-round consensus group technique. First, the experts reached consensus on the items to be included in a 5-level diagnostic scale. They identified 21 clinical conditions and categorized them according to the oral health intervention required. Then, they described workload and activity standards for dental staff to carry out health promotion, oral disease prevention, dental treatment, dental rehabilitation, and urgent dental care. Finally, they agreed upon a set of wait times for primary dental care, establishing maximum waits2 to 365 days, according to the diagnostic classification. Face validity was established for this resource allocation framework, on the basis of expert input. The framework demonstrated potential ability to promote more equitable access to primary dental services, since equal diagnostic classifications

Keywords:

Health Equity. Resource Allocation. Health Care Rationing. Oral health

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Antunes, DS, Naidoo, S, Myburgh, N, Hilgert, J.B., Fisher, PD, Hugo, F.N. Equidade de Acesso à Atenção Básica em Saúde Bucal.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2019/Feb). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/equidade-de-acesso-a-atencao-basica-em-saude-bucal/17092?id=17092



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