Collective Health Dental Practices in the Family Health Strategy
The Family Health Strategy (FHS – Estratégia Saúde da Família/ESF) in Brazil aims to prioritize promotion and protection of the health of individuals and families within the community. It is based on the reorientation and reformulation of the work process in the context of the Single Health System (...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2016 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Associação Brasileira de Ensino Odontológico (ABENO) |
| Repository: | Revista da ABENO (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revabeno.emnuvens.com.br:article/154 |
| Online Access: | https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/154 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Community Dentistry. Family Health. Education Higher. Odontologia Comunitária. Saúde da Família. Educação Superior |
| Summary: | The Family Health Strategy (FHS – Estratégia Saúde da Família/ESF) in Brazil aims to prioritize promotion and protection of the health of individuals and families within the community. It is based on the reorientation and reformulation of the work process in the context of the Single Health System (SHS). The expansion strategy, qualifications and primary care consolidation are centered on health care through promotion and recovery actions, based on the new conception of the health-disease process, with attention focused on family and organized actions in territory defined. In this field, dentistry is inserted also in health promotion, so that the activities developed by professionals are not restrict only to the curative treatment of dental caries. This experience report aims to reflect about practices in health care experienced by dental students at Federal University of Pará. The contact with the local reality became the most sensitive and critical subject in its operations in the National Health System, as well as provide the opportunity for multidisciplinary work and consolidate theoretical concepts of primary health care team experienced on graduation. |
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