Operationalization and financial costs of an extension program for students of public schools

• Autor(a) principal: Terreri, Andre Luiz Marçal
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Paganini, Flávia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/273
• topic: Oral Health. Cost-Benefit Analysis. Community-Institutional Relations; Saúde Bucal. Custo e Análise de Custo. Relações Comunidade-Instituição.

The university extension, concerning social demands and the recent results of SB Brazil epidemiological surveys, which pointed to a great social debt in the context of oral health, becomes a collaborative alternative to the social development of the place where it is acting. The aim of this study was to describe the costs and operationalization of collective actions (teeth brushing, plaque disclosure and fluortherapy) held weekly in 400 children enrolled at the Municipal School of infant and primary education Recanto Feliz, in the municipality of Francisco Beltrão, PR. The methodology used takes as reference an estimated cost of material for a year (40 weeks of the school year) by developing an Extension Program conducted by the Dentistry course of Universidade Paranaense. The project financial cost was around R$ 16.00 per child/year, including the acquisition of permanent use material (collective and individual brush holders), which can be reused in subsequent years, lowering the costs of oral health actions, reaching R$ 8.34 per child/year.