Epidemiological inquiries study and evaluate the health status of the population. For dental caries, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the DMFT and DMFS indexes, which represent the sum of the decayed, missing and filled teeth, divided by the population studied. Traditionally these surveys are conducted using cellulose paper sheet. This study describes the development and presents the field performance of NutriOdonto, a software created for an Oral Health Survey carried out in 2018 and 2019 involving 2578 students from the municipal schools of Palmas/TO, located in the Brazilian Amazon region. This is a descriptive, applied research on the development of a software for the collecting, analysis, management and reproducibility of oral health epidemiological research. A software applied to the collecting, analysis and formation of the database was developed through the information obtained from the questionnaires applied to the participants of the study and the completion of the electronic oral examination form. Recent Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are intelligently configured to create models and mobile applications (Apps) that can be useful to manage health issues, thus broadening the perspective of service provision in this sector. Some of these mobile devices, tablets and smartphones are being developed to generate information, for collection, recording, storage and analysis of oral health epidemiological research data. NutriOdonto contributed to the rapid collection, recording and storage of information, in the construction of the database and its analysis. Replacing paper forms with electronic forms minimized possible typos, reduced the use of cellulose paper and the financial costs, among other things. This software can contribute to decision making by managers and professionals and to improving the planning and implementation of actions in health promotion and oral disease prevention.
A hanseníase é uma doença infecciosa que necessita de cuidados continuados para sua cura completa. Pacientes com essa e outras doenças crônicas apresentaram barreiras na longitudinalidade do tratamento com a pandemia do novo coronavírus. O objetivo deste artigo foi avaliar qual o impacto da pandemia de COVID-19 no cuidado continuado ao mal de Hansen. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa de aspecto exploratório-descritivo que pesquisou as palavras-chave “Hanseníase”, “Cuidados Continuados” e “COVID-19” conectadas pelo termo AND nas bases de dados Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS), Sistema Online de Busca e Análise de Literatura Médica (MEDLINE) e Biblioteca Eletrônica Científica Online (SCIELO) por meio da Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS). Foram encontrados 55 artigos, dos quais, ao serem filtrados por critérios de inclusão e exclusão, foram escolhidos 07 estudos para a confecção final deste documento. Os resultados mostraram que houve subnotificação dos casos de hanseníase durante a crise do COVID-19 em decorrência das barreiras de acesso aos serviços de saúde, além de negligência a aspectos básicos do tratamento continuado do mal de Hansen, a saber: falta de disponibilidade de medicamentos, campanhas de conscientização e cursos de capacitação. Conclui-se que os setores governamentais necessitam elaborar planos para a manutenção do adequado cuidado à hanseníase mesmo em situações pandêmicas, pois a doença gera alta morbidade nesses pacientes, que necessitam de atenção e integralidade para a resolução dessa infecção crônica.
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