The Group Oral Health Movement in Brazil.

Catharina Leite Matos Soares,Sonia Cristina de Lima Chaves,Thais Regis Aranha Rossi,Denise Nogueira Cruz,Sandra Garrido Barros,Jairnilson Silva Paim

doi:10.1590/1413-81232017226.22972016

Catharina Leite Matos Soares, Sonia Cristina de Lima Chaves + Show 4 more

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Abstract

Group Oral Health (GOH) is a specific phenomenon in time, separate from other "Alternative Odontology", and a theoretical reference for dental practice in healthcare services. This study is an attempt to understand how long "Alternative Odontology" will remain with the social context of struggling for oral health in Brazil, based on the positions of the founding agents and their precursors, bearing in mind the concepts of GOH, GH (Group Health) and the SUS (Unified Healthcare System). We started out with Pierre Bourdieu's Practice Theory, complemented with Gramsci's concept of hegemony and counter-hegemony. We completed 12 in-depth interviews, reviewed the literature and analyzed the scientific output. We also looked at the trajectories of the agents and their capital between 1980 and 2013. The results show that the concept of GOC and GH as a breach with health practices, which gave rise to "Alternative Odontology", prevailed among those with the political will to defend democracy and Healthcare Reforms. Although GOC is a critical proposal, the older "Odontology" remains in scientific journals, and in the practice of oral care.

Highlights

The expression Group Oral Health (GOH) emerged in Brazil in the late 1980s, and is used to describe a specific historical phenomenon, different from “Alternative Odontology”, such as: Sanitary Odontology, Preventive and Social Odontology (PSO), and Simplified Odontology, among others[1,2], and as a new name for these same movements[3]
The results show that the concept of GOC and Group Health (GH) as a breach with health practices, which gave rise to “Alternative Odontology”, prevailed among those with the political will to defend democracy and Healthcare Reforms
We looked at GOH in the past 24 years (1990 - 2014), looking at the permanence of the older odontology streams in the social fight for oral health

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Introduction

The expression Group Oral Health (GOH) emerged in Brazil in the late 1980s, and is used to describe a specific historical phenomenon, different from “Alternative Odontology”, such as: Sanitary Odontology, Preventive and Social Odontology (PSO), and Simplified Odontology, among others[1,2], and as a new name for these same movements[3]. Agents involved in the political processes in the fight for democracy within the BHR considered, given the various specificities, GOH as critical content, a breach with what existed, with traditional dental practices that involved private dentistry, PSO and integrated odontology.

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