Promoção da saude : uma estrategia para o foralecimento das praticas em saude bucal / Promotion of the health

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The mouth health precariousness of adult and aged population, in Brazil, influences several functional, social, and psychological aspects, diminishing, thus, the life quality of these individuals. The dentist surgeon has got vital importance in this context as a health field professional and a modifier agent. Goals: to evaluate the knowledge of the Campinas Municipal Health Service dentist surgeon concerning the pratices of health promotion, to verify if these health promotion pratices are executed in his Health Basic Unit and to measure the impact of informations about health promotion by a given text on him. From 180 dentist surgeons of Campinas City Municipal Health Care that accepted to participate in the study, 63 were submitted to the analysis and answered the questionary before and after. Study was experimental, quantitative approach, utilizing a semi-structured questionary and a specific text as intervention. The MacNemar test was utilized because it is regarded as a sample with dichotomycs and dependents variables. The tests were accomplished at 5% of significant level. Main results: set right percentage concerning to knowledge of health promotion was larger in all analyzed questions, by the statistic MacNemar test, after the text reading; 87.3% of dentist surgeons told that their Health Basic Unit carry out actions of health promotion; 79.2% of professionals affirmed that they have participated in health promotion actions in schools and 10% in home for old people; strong tendency of professionals for conducting more resources and health promotion strategies for children education. It is concluded that: a) The majority of the research participants presented technical knowledge deficiency about the concept and documents related to health promotion b) The majority of the dentist surgeons reported that their Basic Health Unit carries out health promotion action; c) The professionals of Campinas Municipal Health Care acquired knowledge about health promotion by a furnished text; the set right percentage, after the text reading, was larger in all questions analysed before and after, being statiscally significant

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promoção da saude oral health geriatria saude bucal health promotion geriatrics

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