CONTRIBUIÇÃO DO DIAGNÓSTICO COLETIVO DO TERRITÓRIO NA FORMAÇÃO DO CIRURGIÃO-DENTISTA

The Public Oral Health aims to develop actions that seek the promotion, prevention, recovery and maintenance of community and individual health. However, for actions such as these to be successful it is necessary that they be appropriately chosen from a specific situation that considers the local reality with their cultural, environmental, social and health findings. Therefore, the objective of experience report of was to present the modus operandi and the contribution of the collective diagnosis of the territory in the qualification of the academics of the Dentistry course of the University Center of Anapolis (UniEVANGELICA). For this, a collective diagnosis of some territories was made as a curricular proposal in force in relation to the teaching of collective health of this institution. This collective diagnosis of the territory is based on the arch of maguerez that follows the stages of the observation of reality, problem, theorization, hypotheses of solution and application of reality; being the observation of the reality made from the application of the method of rapid estimation by analyzing existing records; interviews with key informants; and active observation of the area. The results showed that the collective diagnosis of the territory can be elaborated from the constitution of groups of academics who went to a locality, under supervision and teaching orientation, to elaborate the collective diagnosis against aspects such as: socio-demographic profile of the population ascribed of infrastructure equipment; of social facilities; of the environment; of the external conditions of the dwellings; and community participation (ways of empowering the population). After conducting the collective diagnoses, it is worth highlighting the elaboration of health intervention projects in the community that contemplated topics such as: school health, men's health, women's health, elderly health; in interface with what is proposed the social determinants of health, relating health with housing, work, leisure, among other determinants. We conclude, therefore, that the academic experience experienced by future dental surgeons, in face of the elaboration of the collective diagnosis of the territory, allows them to be trained in both technical aspects related to health planning and social, cultural and humanization aspects in perceive the reality of the territory and relate it to the social determinants of health.