The searched subject inserts in the field of the Economy of the Health and retakes the debate on the concept of industrial medical complex, formulated for Hésio Cordeiro, in 1980, that it considered the study of the relations between the production and the circulation of medicines, the organization of the practical doctor, the forms of state intervention in the sector and practical the concrete ones of individual consumption. It enters the initial results of the research project, are distinguished the following characteristics of the dentistry equipment industry, that differentiates them of the remain of this producing park: an important production carried through in the proper country, the remarkable participation of the exports in relation to the imports and the great amount of countries to where the products are exported. A point that deserves to be pointed is the divergence between the collected data together the governmental organisms and to the representative association of the industry.
Industrial complex of the health; Industrial-medical complex; Economy of the health; Dentistry equipment
