Banca de DEFESA: MARIA HELENA RODRIGUES GALVÃO

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STUDENT : MARIA HELENA RODRIGUES GALVÃO
DATE: 27/05/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Remoto
TITLE:

FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF DENTAL SERVICES BY ADULTS IN BRAZIL

KEY WORDS:

Dental Health Services.Effective Access to Health Services.Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.Equity in Access to Health Services. Health Surveys.

PAGES: 142
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Saúde Coletiva
SUBÁREA: Epidemiologia
SUMMARY:

The present study aimed to understand the factors associated with dental services utilization by adults in Brazil. This is a quantitative, observational, cross-sectional, analytical study. Individual data from the National Health Surveys developed in 2013 and 2019 are available on the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics website. Data were analyzed by adjusting the sample weights resulting from complex samples. For each study, multivariate analysis techniques addressed the study's objectives. The results will be discussed in 3 scientific papers accepted for publication in journals. It was noticed that the population subgroups comprising Blacks and those residing in the North or Northeast, with lower social class and education, had a greater chance of having irregular follow-up and never having been to the dentist. In addition, this population stratum also had a greater chance of undergoing surgical or emergency dental procedures in the last dental appointment. The outcome never had a dental appointment was significantly associated with illiterate, males, without private dental insurance, self-rated oral health as bad or very bad, household not enrolled in primary care teams, household in a rural area, high household crowding, and low household income per capita. The highest prevalence of public dental service utilization on an individual level was observed among unable to read or write people, indigenous, black or brown, with per capita household income of up to U$124, living in the rural area, and who self-rated oral health as regular or very bad/bad. On the contextual level, highest public dental service utilization was observed among those living in federal units with increased oral health coverage in primary health care. In general, we observe inequalities in dental services utilization in Brazil. This scenario occurs when social characteristics and facilitating aspects determine who uses the services, to the detriment of the need to use them. Despite this, we observed an important effect resulting from the provision of dental services in primary care as a mitigating factor for such inequalities, demonstrating a positive effect of the strategies adopted in the National Oral Health Policy.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1149540 - ANGELO GIUSEPPE RONCALLI DA COSTA OLIVEIRA
Externo à Instituição - FERNANDO JOSÉ HERKRATH - FIOCRUZ
Externo à Instituição - FRANKLIN DELANO SOARES FORTE - UFPB
Externo à Instituição - Hélder Henrique Costa Pinheiro - UFPA
Interna - 2305247 - ISABELLE RIBEIRO BARBOSA MIRABAL
Externa à Instituição - SÔNIA CRISTINA LIMA CHAVES - UFBA