Abstract
ABSTRACT |Background: Oral health is an important factor of human morbidity worldwide. Yet is often neglected in occupational health despite its direct impact on the quality of life and health of workers.Objective: To discuss the role of oral health in sickness absence and presenteeism, as well as in development and work efficiency improvement processes involving governments, companies and the workers themselves.Methods: Review of full-text articles on oral health, occupational health, sickness absence and presenteeism published in English or Portuguese in the last 10 years and included in scientific databases.Results: Oral problems accounted for 9 to 27% cases of sickness absence and 28 to 50% of presenteeism, with toothache and temporomandibular joint pain as the most frequent reasons. About 50% of workers prefer company-provided dental care, while 40% visit public and 10% other types of facilities. Despite high, the prevalence of oral diseases and orofacial pain was not associated with high rates of absenteeism, but mainly with presenteeism, this is to say, workers do not tend to miss work days, but their performance is reduced and become susceptible to more serious health problems in the future.Conclusion: Oral health is not dissociated from general and occupational health, and as such it must be enhanced and duly promoted in an integrated manner. Effective and comprehensive oral health promotion and prevention public policies and private sector actions in the workplace can enhance the quality of life of workers.
Highlights
Comitê Técnico Assessor em Vigilância em Saúde Bucal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli da Costa Oliveira Gilberto Alfredo Pucca Jr
Para os dados de cárie dentária de coroa, a distribuição também será analisada de acordo com os domínios do estudo
Percentuais de CPO-D/Centros de Especialidades Odontológicas (CEO)-D = 0 são sempre inferiores nas regiões Centro-Oeste, Norte e Nordeste quando comparados com os das regiões Sul e Sudeste
Summary
Os estudos transversais são importantes componentes em qualquer política de vigilância em saúde. É fundamental que a realização destes estudos faça parte de uma estratégia inserida no componente de vigilância à saúde da política de saúde, na perspectiva da construção de uma série histórica de dados de saúde bucal com o objetivo de verificar tendências, planejar e avaliar serviços. Pretende-se dar continuidade ao citado processo, realizando uma pesquisa em moldes semelhantes, de maneira a construir uma série histórica, contribuindo para as estratégias de avaliação e planejamento dos serviços, ao mesmo tempo em que consolida um modelo metodológico e demarca o campo de atuação do componente de vigilância à saúde da Política Nacional de Saúde Bucal
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