A avaliação epidemiológica do município de Passa Tempo com vistas a uma futura reorganização do modelo de atenção em saúde bucal

Abstract

The Health Care Model is a reference for thinking in health care from a particular place, arranging the elements of the process of health work in order to intervent solving the problems. The health care model is being modified and built in the daily political relations between their elements. Faced with the need to have a care model resolvent, it is necessary to apply epidemiological methods to managers and health workers of different segments of the organizational structure of the states and municipalities. Epidemiological studies are useful in the evaluation of public health since it identifies unmet needs and problems of management. This study aims to evaluate the oral health status of the users of the Family Health Program (PSF) in the town of Passa Tempo - MG, as a way to subsidize a future shift of oral health care model. This will be a description of oral health status at ages 5 years, 12 years, 18 years and the age group of 35-44 years, 65-79 years in relation to dental caries, based on epidemiological survey conducted at Passa Tempo MG, in 2009, by the author of this work. The results will be compared with the epidemiological results obtained in epidemiological SB Brazil 2003 (MS) and evaluated according to the goals of the World Health Organization (WHO). From this will be pointed to the importance of structured diagnosis on the epidemiology of oral conditions for a reorientation of the existing model of oral health care in Passa Tempo MG.