Integração da Equipe de Saúde Bucal com a Equipe de Saúde da Família

Abstract

The present paper makes an analysis of the integration between the Oral Health Team (OHT) and the Family Health Team (FHT) in the Health Centers of the sanitary district of Venda Nova (VN-SANDIS) In Belo Horizonte. Its goal is to perform team work considering the holistic view of patients in the making of common therapeutic projects when introducing a model of total health attention. For this work, many monitoring visits to Health Centers were made and several technicians of central and district areas had meetings with dentists, oral health technicians and assistants as well as the local manager to fill in a questionnaire and discuss the working process and the current protocols of SMSA-BH. In those meetings, we pointed out the necessity of Oral Health as an integral part in the existing areas using an approach that favors non-clinical actions, which are crucial for the integration between the Oral Health Teams and Family Health Team as well as the subscribed population. The outcomes show an integration which is under construction and is regulated in some areas and absent in others. Thus, it makes it necessary to follow the whole process to make sure it will occur in all units, so that the Oral Health Teams can actually be part of the Family Health Team.