EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEY ON ORAL HEALTH IN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT IN TIMES OF COVID-19 (Atena Editora)

Abstract

Oral health programs have data collection and dissemination of information among their fundamental pillars. At the end of 2019, a new epidemic caused by a respiratory virus began to spread rapidly in China, reaching Brazil in early 2020, it was the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the etiological agent of Covid-19, a disease that has a high transfer rate. After the declaration of the World Health Organization classifying it as a pandemic, a series of actions were adopted by governments around the world. In Brazil, one of the actions was the closure of schools and the interruption of health promotion and disease prevention actions at a collective level. Despite the relaxation of the rules of social interaction, the world began to worry about possible new epidemics caused by airborne viruses. With that in mind, an attempt was made to reorganize the World Health Organization epidemiological survey elaboration tool, taking into consideration, this possible reality. A search was carried out among scientific articles and government documents with the primary objective of determining the health rules for the school environment that had scientific support. In a second moment, a parallel was drawn between the tool for carrying out epidemiological surveys of the WHO and what in it could cause the spread of the virus. Finally, a new booklet of rules was prepared for carrying out epidemiological surveys with a minimum risk of contagion by the virus, both for the collection team and for the individuals examined.