Oral health indicators in the context of brazilian oral health policy: an integrative review

Abstract

Integrative literature review about service indicators related to dentistry in Brazil. We start from the following question: Are the indicators from studies that focused on dental services in SUS either consistent with the health promotion paradigm advocated by the National Oral Health Policy or are they restricted to the traditional scope of service programming? The search was performed in Scielo and Bireme, including articles published between 2004 and 2018, resulting in a final sample of 21 articles, read in full and extracted information about the indicators used, later categorized and analyzed. The results show that, although the diversity of used indicators represent relevant aspects of reality, generally disregard the category of care and attributes of health promotion paradigm, and there is a lack of outcome indicators, which would allow assessing the impact of health policy on user demands.

Keywords:
Oral Health; Dentistry; Unified Health System; Indicators of Health Services; Review