MARTINEZ ABREU, Judit et al. Considerations on the concept of health and its approach in relation with buccal health. []. , 36, 5, pp. 671-680. ISSN 1684-1824.

Generally, health has been linked to disease, according to the historical moment, thoughts currents and ruling socio-economic system. We carried out a bibliographic review, with the objective of stating some considerations on health concept and its approach in several contexts, and also its expression in buccal health. We used search engines and databases Cochrane, Medline/Pubmed, Lilacs and Scopus. We obtained a total of 20 references related with the studied theme, 70 % of them published during the last 5 years. We analyzed the following considerations: currently, there is a tendency to deepening in the study of all the elements determining health as a social product. Any definition should take in to the account this aspect as an essential one. Sanitary care, answering to a predominantly biological approach, has not achieved the positive modification of the health indicators in relation with the buccal-dental diseases morbidity.That is why any politics, strategy or target, aimed to achieving or keeping health, should be directed to the buccal health social determinants, applying the interdisciplinarity.

: concept of health; buccal health; health social determinants; interdisciplinarity.

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