Title |
Oral health policies in Brazil
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Published in |
Brazilian Oral Research, October 2009
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DOI | 10.1590/s1806-83242009000500003 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Gilberto Alfredo Pucca, José Felipe Riani Costa, Luciana de Deus Chagas, Rosa Maria Sivestre |
Abstract |
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. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Brazil | 3 | 4% |
Unknown | 71 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 16 | 22% |
Student > Bachelor | 11 | 15% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 11% |
Researcher | 7 | 9% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 5% |
Other | 11 | 15% |
Unknown | 17 | 23% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 41 | 55% |
Social Sciences | 4 | 5% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 1% |
Mathematics | 1 | 1% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 1% |
Other | 7 | 9% |
Unknown | 19 | 26% |