Factors related to the performance of Specialized Dental Care Centers

Ciência & Saúde Coletiva

Flávia Christiane De Azevedo Machado¹  Janmille Valdevino Silva¹  Maria Ângela Fernandes Ferreira¹ 

关键词: Secondary health care;    Oral health;    Health evaluation;    Health services assessment;    Atenção secundária à saúde;    Saúde bucal;    Avaliação em saúde;    Avaliação de serviços de saúde;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1413-81232015204.00532014

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The Specialized Dental Care Centers (SDCC) have the mission to expand access to public medium complexity dental care and support the primary health care actions at this level of complexity. However, it is necessary to ensure the quality of services and to evaluate such services continuously to identify weaknesses and strengths that support the processes of leadership/management. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of studies on the assessment of oral health in specialized care that may indicate which factors should be investigated. Therefore, this integrated literature review sought to explore the plethora of publications on the evaluation of SDCC in the LILACS and MEDLINE data bases in October 2013 to identify factors possibly related to the performance of such health services. Thus, 13 references were included in this review pointing to forms of organization and management of work processes related to the creation of healthcare networks (operation of regulation centers and setting up of health consortiums). They include the contextual characteristics of the places where SDCCs are located (population size, Family Health Strategy coverage, Municipal Human Development Index, governance, governing capacity) were factors that influenced the SDCCs performance.

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