Análise do mercado odontológico em municípios de Mato Grosso do Sul em 2014 e a percepção de clientes quanto aos principais serviços deste setor

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the dental labor market in Mato Grosso do Sul, in order to verify the amount of dental professionals by specialty, their distribution in the municipalities assessed and its percentage in relation to the number of inhabitants per municipality, determining the poor specialties in each municipality. It also seeks to assess the perceptions of students of the School of Administration, Accounting and Economics (FACE), via sampling, on the main services used in this sector. The research was conducted through literature review of related topics, a questionnaire to consider the users of dental services views and data collection and analysis on Federal Board of Dentistry and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in the 2014. Results show that the specialties are concentrated in the larger cities of the state, mainly in Campo Grande. Some of these specialties are not even offered to residents of some cities examined, requiring the patient travel to larger centers for treatment. In the survey, data reflecting the difficulty of the dental system users to make payments of treatments, either the high cost as particular, or the lack of health insurance plans that include dentistry, this difficulty magnified by the absence of professional or the concentration of these in larger cities in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.