PUBLIC ORAL HEALTH POLICIES IN BRAZIL OVER THE YEARS AND CHANGES IN HEALTH INDICATORS

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Érika Thamires de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: da Silva, Matheus Henrique, Teodoro , Thaynná Alves Dias, Gonçalves , Stefani Almeida, Brandão , Leonardo Almeida, Pereira, Saulo Gonçalves, Góes, Roberto Wagner Lopes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Scientia Generalis
• Texto Completo: https://scientiageneralis.com.br/index.php/SG/article/view/199
• topic: Politc policy; Oral health; Health indicator; Dentistry; Políticas Públicas; Saúde Bucal; Indicadores de saúde; odontologia; Políticas Públicas; Salud bucal; Indicadores de salud; odontología

Throughout history, public health policies had their evolution based on political-social and economic transformations. Regarding oral health, History shows that the evolution of such policies was specifically marked by exclusion and individuality, thus, knowing, understanding and discussing them is of paramount importance for understanding their effect on changes in health indicators. health. This research aimed to present the main actions and public policies related to oral health in Brazil in historical periods demarcated in a simplified way, namely: colonial, imperial and republican periods (old and new), also pointing out changes in health indicators oral. For this, a descriptive qualitative study was carried out based on a critical analysis of the literature. With this research it was possible to analyze and conclude that during the colonial period, health services were often provided by philanthropic institutions and in their absence, the population was assisted by healers, empirical bleeders and even by curious people. in the regulation of health and human resources activities by the crown. Throughout the republican period (old and new) the vast majority of public policies were based on exclusion and centralization of actions. An important milestone of the (new) republican period is the creation of the Smiling Brazil program, which has consolidated itself as a solid public policy responsible for promoting a significant transformation of Brazilian oral health indicators. a sector that has always carried over the years in its evolution the concern with profit, where the trademark is social neglect, which can be observed to this day in the mutilating actions practiced in the mouths and lives of countless Brazilians.