RESUMEN
Since Oral Health policies in Brazil have been constructed according to circumstances and possibilities, they should be understood within a given context. The present analysis contextualizes several issues of the Brazilian Oral Health Policy, called "Smiling Brazil", and describes its present stage of development. Today it involves re-organizing basic oral health care by deploying Oral Health Teams within the Family Health strategy, setting up Centers of Dental Specialists within an Oral Health network as a secondary care measure, setting up Regional Laboratories of Dental Prosthesis and a more extensive fluoridation of the public water supply.
Asunto(s)
Servicios de Salud Dental/organización & administración , Salud de la Familia , Política de Salud , Promoción de la Salud/organización & administración , Salud Bucal , Brasil , Centros Comunitarios de Salud/organización & administración , Centros Comunitarios de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Índice CPO , Atención a la Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Servicios de Salud Dental/estadística & datos numéricos , Factores Epidemiológicos , Fluoruración , Política de Salud/historia , Promoción de la Salud/historia , Promoción de la Salud/legislación & jurisprudencia , Historia del Siglo XX , Historia del Siglo XXI , Humanos , Programas Nacionales de Salud/historia , Administración en Salud Pública , Odontología en Salud Pública , Recursos Humanos , Organización Mundial de la SaludRESUMEN
Since Oral Health policies in Brazil have been constructed according to circumstances and possibilities, they should be understood within a given context. The present analysis contextualizes several issues of the Brazilian Oral Health Policy, called "Smiling Brazil", and describes its present stage of development. Today it involves re-organizing basic oral health care by deploying Oral Health Teams within the Family Health strategy, setting up Centers of Dental Specialists within an Oral Health network as a secondary care measure, setting up Regional Laboratories of Dental Prosthesis and a more extensive fluoridation of the public water supply.