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Dental Procedures in Primary Health Care of the Brazilian National Health System

The aim of this study was to examine the procedures of primary dental health care performed by oral health teams (OHTs) adhering to the second cycle of the ‘National Programme for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care’ (PMAQ-AB) in Brazil. A cross-sectional descriptive analysis was performed,...

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Autores principales: Mendes, Suellen R., Martins, Renata C., Matta-Machado, Antônio T. G., Mattos, Grazielle C. M., Gallagher, Jennifer E., Abreu, Mauro H. N. G.
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Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5750898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29194346
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14121480
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author Mendes, Suellen R.
Martins, Renata C.
Matta-Machado, Antônio T. G.
Mattos, Grazielle C. M.
Gallagher, Jennifer E.
Abreu, Mauro H. N. G.
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Martins, Renata C.
Matta-Machado, Antônio T. G.
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description The aim of this study was to examine the procedures of primary dental health care performed by oral health teams (OHTs) adhering to the second cycle of the ‘National Programme for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care’ (PMAQ-AB) in Brazil. A cross-sectional descriptive analysis was performed, across 23 dental procedures comprising preventive, restorative/prosthetic, surgical, endodontic and oral cancer monitoring. Descriptive analysis shows that most of the oral health teams carry out basic dental procedures. However, most of the time, they do not keep adequate records of suspected cases of oral cancer, diagnosis tests or follow-ups, and do not perform dental prosthetic procedures. Data also showed disparities in the average number of procedures performed in each Brazilian geographical region in 2013–2014, ranging from 13.9 in the northern to 16.5 in the southern and south-eastern regions, reinforcing the great social disparities between them. Brazilian regions with the highest volume of dental need deliver the lowest number of dental procedures. The need to tackle inequalities and further shape the supply of appropriate primary health care (PHC) is evident.
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spelling pubmed-57508982018-01-10 Dental Procedures in Primary Health Care of the Brazilian National Health System Mendes, Suellen R. Martins, Renata C. Matta-Machado, Antônio T. G. Mattos, Grazielle C. M. Gallagher, Jennifer E. Abreu, Mauro H. N. G. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The aim of this study was to examine the procedures of primary dental health care performed by oral health teams (OHTs) adhering to the second cycle of the ‘National Programme for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care’ (PMAQ-AB) in Brazil. A cross-sectional descriptive analysis was performed, across 23 dental procedures comprising preventive, restorative/prosthetic, surgical, endodontic and oral cancer monitoring. Descriptive analysis shows that most of the oral health teams carry out basic dental procedures. However, most of the time, they do not keep adequate records of suspected cases of oral cancer, diagnosis tests or follow-ups, and do not perform dental prosthetic procedures. Data also showed disparities in the average number of procedures performed in each Brazilian geographical region in 2013–2014, ranging from 13.9 in the northern to 16.5 in the southern and south-eastern regions, reinforcing the great social disparities between them. Brazilian regions with the highest volume of dental need deliver the lowest number of dental procedures. The need to tackle inequalities and further shape the supply of appropriate primary health care (PHC) is evident. MDPI 2017-12-01 2017-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5750898/ /pubmed/29194346 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14121480 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14121480
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