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0321/2017 - Primary dental care in Brazil: Work process of oral health teams.
Atenção primária à saúde bucal no Brasil: Processo de trabalho das equipes de saúde bucal.

Author:

• Matheus Neves - Neves, M. - Porto Alegre, RS - <matineves@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7336-8987

Co-author(s):

• Jessye Melgarejo do Amaral Giordani - Giordani, JMA - <jessyesm@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3825-9734
• Fernando Neves Hugo - Hugo, Fernando Neves - <fernandoneveshugo@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2222-7719


Abstract:

Ensuring access to dental care services requires the development of health surveillance practices, so as to achieve comprehensive health care. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between social and economic indicators of Brazilian municipalities, work process characteristics, and performance of a list of curative dental procedures by oral health teams. This was an exploratory, cross-sectional study with multicenter data collection at 11,374 oral health teams assessed by the National Program for Improvement of Access and Quality of Primary Health Care. Multilevel Poisson regression was used to obtain the prevalence of curative dental procedures, which was 69.51% (7,906/11,374; 95%CI 68.66-70.35). The social/economic and work variables that remained associated with the outcome included municipalities in which the proportion of primary care-sensitive admissions was below 28% and that of tooth extractions, below 8%; and oral health teams classified as type II (including oral health assistant and technician), those that had different materials available, and had better work processes. This multilevel analysis, which took into consideration the performance of curative dental care in Brazil, reveals a serious, worrying scenario.

Keywords:

Health Services Evaluation; Dental Health Services; Public Health Dentistry; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.

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Neves, M., Giordani, JMA, Hugo, Fernando Neves. Primary dental care in Brazil: Work process of oral health teams.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2017/Sep). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/primary-dental-care-in-brazil-work-process-of-oral-health-teams/16373?id=16373&id=16373



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