Abstract
ABSTRACT The last few decades have witnessed a growth in the value of dentists as health professionals as they act as protagonists in the construction of public health policies. This change comes from powerful and representative dentists in the Unified Health System (acronym in Portuguese is SUS). This short theoretical essay aims to bring the reader closer to the attributes necessary for the building of a social policy and draws a parallel with the National Oral Health Policy (acronym in Portuguese is PNSB). Issues such as context-oriented health policy and the National Oral Health Policy associated with the attributes of a social policy are presented in a narrative and reflective manner. In this process, the exercise of citizenship is demonstrated, emphasizing the importance of the collective role and policy of dentist surgeons in the stages of health policies in Brazil
Highlights
Revisiting his twenty-year doctoral thesis after being publicly defended, the philosopher and doctor FrenchmanGeorges Canguilhem, reiterates that health and illness are manifestations of life
The aforementioned sociologist states that life is a social manifestation that presents itself through biological organisms who are
A social organism is one with strong political and emancipatory potential [2]. This political body/organism, which goes through interactive, participatory, and social processes, can guide and translate health needs and problems to solve proposals and guide state policies. It happens when acting in the field of collective health
Summary
Revisiting his twenty-year doctoral thesis after being publicly defended, the philosopher and doctor Frenchman. The aforementioned sociologist states that life is a social manifestation that presents itself through biological organisms who are
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