Offer and Use of Oral Health in Primary Care Before and After the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil

Autor: Edson Hilan Gomes de Lucena, Aldelany Ramalho Freire, Deborah Ellen Wanderley Gomes Freire, Elza Cristina Farias de Araújo, Gabriela Nazaré Wanderley Lira, Arella Cristina Muniz Brito, Wilton Wilney Nascimento Padilha, Yuri Wanderley Cavalcanti
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Pesquisa Brasileira em Odontopediatria e Clínica Integrada, Vol 20 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1519-0501
1983-4632
Popis: Objective: To compare the offer and use of oral health services in primary care, before and after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. Material and Methods: An observational study with a cross-sectional ecological design, using data from the Health Information System for Primary Care. Data regarding the number of Oral Health Teams (OHT), Oral Health Coverage in Primary Care (OHC), number of First Programmatic Dental Consultations (FPDC), and number of visits due to dental abscess and toothache were collected. Data regarding the 26 Brazilian states and Federal District were collected, as consolidated of the first quarter (January to April) of 2019 and of 2020. The median of the difference (MD) and the percentage of variation (%V) were obtained for each variable and were compared by Wilcoxon test (α
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