Agente comunitário de saúde: sujeito ativo na construção do saber em saúde bucal

Abstract

A survey in 1998 found that 29.6 million Brazilians have never been to the dentist. Given this result, the Ministry of Health in 2000, announced the inclusion of the Teams of Oral Health in the Family Health Program. Given the short time of entering formal Team Dental Health Team on Family Health has chosen to address the profile and the current knowledge of Community Health Workers on oral health. The objective of the study was to enable the Communitarian Agents of Health being aimed at to improve its performance next to the community in the transmission of information on oral health. The research was conducted with the Centro de Saúde São Francisco, Belo Horizonte. Were selected to compose the sample studied nine Community Health Agents to collect data has produced a semi-structured questionnaire containing ten questions. The survey results showed that the majority of respondents were female, aged between 21 and 30 years and average education level. The survey results showed that the Community Health Agents surveyed are ill-prepared to guide and transfer to the community in its area of operation information on oral health, which makes the population's adherence to the practice of health promotion and prevention, and access to services. This finding led to the proposal to conduct training through workshops, discussion groups and round-table discussions scheduled.