Abstract

SILVA, Lorena Soares da; SANTANA, Karliane Resende; PINHEIRO, Helder Henrique Costa  and  NASCIMENTO, Liliane Silva do. Indicators of primary care and specialized oral health care in municipalities in the State of Pará, Brazil: ecological study in the period 2001-2010. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2013, vol.22, n.2, pp.325-334. ISSN 1679-4974.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742013000200014.

OBJECTIVE: to describe the indicators of primary care and specialized oral health care in municipalities in Pará state. METHODS: An ecological study using Unified Health System Outpatient Information System data between 2001-2010 for primary care indicators and between 2008-2010 for secondary care indicators. Residents in the places studied were the reference population. RESULTS: first Programmatic Dental Consultation coverage of basic and specialized restoration and periodontal procedures increased from 7.8% to 14.6% between 2001-2010. A reduction was observed in the proportion of tooth extractions and individual dental procedures from 22.23% to 17.52%, although the annual number of procedures remained stable over the period. CONCLUSION: the number of procedures increased. However, the number of procedures per capita shows low population coverage, denoting difficulties in accessing dental procedures, especially specialized ones.

Keywords : Time Series Studies; Indicators of Health Services; Health Policy; Health Oral; Ecological Studies.

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