Oral healt care and conditions of brazilian population in a liberty privation situation

Abstract

The population in a liberty privation situation, for legal reasons in Brazil, it’s composed of men and women adults in the prisional system and young people in educational measures. The right to health of this population is guaranteed by ministerial policies regulated by normative ordinances, which integrate this part of population to the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), with focus on comprehensive, resolutive and continuous quality care. However, there are significant factors that hinder the effective promotion of health, such as structural deficiency, overcrowding, unhealthy and stressful environments, poor diet and unhealthy habits. Therefore, the present study proposed to verify, through a narrative review of the literature, the oral health panorama of this population. The research to compose this review was made in the bibliographic databases PubMed, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, including LILACS, Periódicos CAPES and SciELO. Inclusion criteria were used as a linguistic (English and Portuguese), thematic and chronological parameter, published between 2010 and 2020, covering qualitative and quantitative studies, and literature reviews, totalizing 12 articles. It was possible to observe a high demand for oral health care in this group, in promotion and prevention, and a deficit in the provision of services, expressed by limitations in infrastructure, weaknesses in human resources, and by the curative profile of care, evidencing the need to reformulate and strengthen the offer of dental services to these individuals.

Keywords: Prisoners. Health Law. Public Health Denstitry. Adolescent Institutionalized.