Oral health and the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS): selective comprehensiveness in a neoliberal conjuncture. / "A saúde bucal e o Sistema Único de Saúde: integralidade seletiva em uma conjuntura neoliberal"

AUTOR(ES)

Celso Zilbovicius

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

In this research the current process of insertion of oral health care in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) in a perspective of a neoliberal macroeconomic policy that has been adopted by Brazilian governments since the final decades of the 20 th Century was analyzed. The application of the principles of universal access and comprehensiveness in the system was studied through an analysis of the offer of specialized services in oral health in the public chain of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) in the cities of the State of São Paulo. The research included a study of the profile of the human resources of the oral health team of the system, the access of the population to dental care by age groups and the offer of preventive actions for this population. With the collaboration of the Oral Health Dept. of the Sao Paulo State Health Secretary, a questionnaire was sent to all the cities of the State (645 in total). Upon return of the questionnaires, database was created and analyzed. Return percentage was 58, 4 % (377 questionnaires) from all regions of the State. Endodontics was the specialization most offered in the system although in a low percentage (29, 7%) followed by periodontics, oral semiology and BMF Surgery. A little more than half of the sample (52,5%) declared that access to the dental care is universal .The great majority of the cities (98,1 %) offer preventive actions to age group 3-14 years old and only 11,1% offer these actions to adults. Through this research it is not possible to affirm that the neoliberal policy is the only factor that contributed for this timid profile of the oral health care model adopted concerning the universal access and comprehensiveness, this one being adopted in a selective manner to some age groups regarding the perspective of a joint model of care and prevention strategies, although the strong influence of the economic policy in the slow movement of improvement of the SUS in the country, besides the legal outline of the system elaborated by the Brazilian society.. Therefore, the process of building a new oral public health model in Brazil is not completed yet

ASSUNTO(S)

universal access sistema Único de saúde integralidade saúde bucal oral public health universalidade comprehensiveness neoliberalismo brazilian unified health system neoliberalism

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