The role of the university and post-graduation courses in improving health and life of quality of the society

Resumo

The relationship between health systems and higher education is
of fundamental importance to establish oral health improvements
for population. Currently, primary attention’s goal is to determine
the quality of life of a given population through total denture
rehabilitation. Thus the aim of this study was to report the integrated
actions between the Health Secretary of the city of Curitiba and the
University during the training in Total Denture of primary attention
professionals. Fifty dental professional from nine sanitary districts
of the city of Curitiba were enrolled in the training. The project
comprised theoretical and practical classes during a period of five
weeks, from June to July of 2013. More similar actions reinforce
the university’s role in improving the quality of life of the population
and the university integration with public service aiming at updating
dental professionals.