Positioning of dental entities on the National Oral Health Policy, in the period 2015-2017

ABSTRACT

This study analyzed the positioning of national dental entities on the National Oral Health Policy (PNSB), between 2015 and 2017, in Brazil, as a space for relations of strength between agents and institutions. A documentary analysis of the related publications about politics was carried out on official websites, social networks and news from the Federal Council of Dentistry (CFO), of the Brazilian Association of Dentistry (ABO), the Federations of unions and the Association of Collective Oral Health (Abrasbuco). The monitoring was weekly, according to categories: actions and positioning of the entity on the politics, professional demands and relations with the political field. It was observed, during this period, that CFO and Interstate Odontologists Federation were the entities that most published about politics. The unions and representatives of Abrasbuco were more critically positioned about the successive changes in the General Coordination of Oral Health in 2015. The fact that mobilized all entities, with the exception of ABO, was the possible extinction of coordination, in 2016. It stands out the common position of entities for the defense of the expansion of the policy with new jobs in the SUS and articulation with the legislative power in the approval of bills, such as dentistry in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the transformation of the PNSB into State politics.

KEYWORDS
Health policy; Dental care; Dentistry; Oral health