Assessment of public oral healthcare services in Curitiba, Brazil: a cross-sectional study using the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCATool).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare two different models of public oral health in primary care services, a so-called family health strategy (FHS), as opposed to non-FHS services designated as 'conventional' healthcare (CHC), regarding the presence and extent of the attributes of 'good' primary healthcare (PHC). The null hypothesis of this study is that the attributes do not differ between the FHS and CHC.

Design

Cross-sectional.

Setting

Public PHC services in Curitiba, the state capital of Paraná.

Participants

PHC users of the public oral health network (n=900) and dentists active in this municipal network (n=203).

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCATool)-Dentists and PCATool-Users were used to analyse the primary outcomes ('es

SUBMITTER: Nascimento AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6340483 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature