The objective of this study was to analyze possible associations between antibiotic dental prescriptions in the public health service, health service characteristics, and social characteristics of the municipalities. Using the register of dispensing in the public health service of a state in the Southeast region of Brazil, in 2017 we analyzed patterns of antibiotic prescriptions by dentists. Data were obtained from the Integrated Pharmaceutical Services Management System (SIGAF, in Portuguese). The outcome variable was the number of Daily Defined Doses (DDD) per 1,000 residents/year in each municipality. CART (Classification and Regression Tree) technique was used to determine the influence of the following variables: populational social characteristics (Human Development Index, Gini Index, the proportion of rural population and proportion of families benefiting from the Bolsa Família Program) and oral health services characteristics (access to individual dental care, number of dentists and oral health teams per 1,000 residents, and percentage of preventive and restorative individual dental procedures. Data analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0. Antibiotics were the medications most prescribed by dentists in the public health service, with penicillin being the most frequently prescribed class. The average DDD/1,000 residents/year for the 421 municipalities surveyed was 96.54 (range 0.008 and 619.660). Select factors were associated with antibiotic prescriptions including access to individual dental care (Adjusted p-value ≤0.001), a number of oral health teams/1,000 inhabitants (Adjusted p-value=0.001), and Gini Index (Adjusted p-value = 0.046). Access to oral health services and inequality were associated with the use of antibiotics.

Methodological study for the development, content validation, and measurability assessment of indicators to monitor oral health services in Primary Health Care (PHC). Data from the e-SUS PHC system were used and evaluated by 46 experts regarding relevance, transparency, and theoretical alignment. Measurability was assessed using 2022 data from the Primary Care Health Information System (SISAB) for Brazilian municipalities. Sixty-eight indicators were validated (agreement > 75%), with 53 deemed measurable, covering subdimensions such as Access, Surveillance, Diagnosis and Treatment, Promotion and Prevention, Intersectoral Action, and Work Processes. The percentage of municipalities with calculated indicators ranged from 0.97% to 95.40%.

The objective of this study was to describe dental prescriptions of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID), opioids, and analgesics dispensed by the Brazilian National Health System (BNHS, SUS in Portuguese) of a Southeastern state from January to December 2017, and to analyze their association with socioeconomic and oral health care services’ characteristics at municipal level. Data were collected from the Brazilian Integrated Pharmaceutical Care Management System. Medicines were grouped according to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System. The total number of Defined Daily Doses (DDD) and DDD per 1,000 inhabitants (inhab.) per year were presented and compared between groups of municipalities. Data analysis used the Classification and Regression Tree model performed with IBM SPSS 25.0. The total number of NSAID, opioids, and analgesics prescriptions was 70,747 and accounted for 354,221.13 DDD. The most frequently prescribed medicine was ibuprofen (n = 24,676; 34.88%). The number of dental practitioners in the BNHS per 1,000 inhab. (p < 0.001), first dental appointment coverage (p = 0.010), oral health teams per 1,000 inhab. (p=0.022), and the proportion of rural population (p = 0.014) were variables positively associated with the number of DDD of NSAID per 1,000 inhab. per year. Bolsa Família program coverage per 1,000 inhab. (p = 0.022) was negatively associated with NSAID prescription. Regarding analgesics, first dental appointment coverage (p=0.002) and Bolsa Família program coverage per 1,000 inhab. (p = 0.012) were positively associated with DDD per 1,000 inhab. per year. In conclusion, dental prescriptions of analgesics and NSAID in the BNHS were associated with socioeconomic and oral health care services’ characteristics.

Objective: This study describes the methodology used in the development of MonitoraSB, an innovation in the field of evaluating and monitoring oral health services in primary health care (PHC) in Brazil, and it discusses its characteristics and possible uses.

Resumo Estudo metodológico de criação, validação de conteúdo e avaliação da mensurabilidade de indicadores para o monitoramento dos serviços de saúde bucal na atenção primária à saúde (APS). Indicadores foram elaborados a partir de variáveis registradas nas fichas de atendimento odontológico individual e atividades coletivas do e-SUS APS. Um comitê de 46 painelistas avaliou os indicadores, obtendo-se o percentual de concordância entre eles quanto à relevância da medida, transparência do método de cálculo e se eles mediam a dimensão teórica. A mensurabilidade foi avaliada usando dados do Sistema de Informação em Saúde para a Atenção Básica (SISAB), para cada município brasileiro, em 2022. Foi obtido o percentual de municípios que apresentavam dados não nulos para o numerador e/ou denominador. Foram validados 68 indicadores (concordância > 75%) e demonstrada a mensurabilidade de 53, nas subdimensões “acesso aos serviços de saúde bucal” (9), “vigilância em saúde bucal” (5), “diagnóstico, tratamento e reabilitação em saúde bucal” (16), “promoção e prevenção” (14), “atuação intersetorial/participação popular” (4) e “processo de trabalho” (5). O percentual de municípios com indicadores calculados variou de 0,97 a 95,40%.