Communication and health education: the challenge of oral health promotion in the primary care / "Comunicação e educação em saúde: o desafio da promoção da saúde bucal na atenção primária"

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The aim of this qualitative study is to know meanings of oral health to children s caregivers and their articulation with the interests in oral health educative practices; it focuses on the communicational interaction between health professionals and caregivers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted. Conclusions: the caregivers conception about oral health are not perfectly aligned with the deontological discourse, caregivers take over oral health orientations and articulate them with their knowledge, conceptions and real possibilities of change practices; vulnerability aspects of the caregivers can influence adoption of preventive rules; the educative practices provided by the health services partially attend the caregivers interests and expectations

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saúde bucal/prevenção &controle educação em saúde qualitative research comunicação oral health communication health education pesquisa qualitativa saúde bucal

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