Research Article
Performance of Primary Dental Care Services: An Ecological Study in a Large Brazilian City
Table 2
Description of primary dental care performance in each cluster, Belo Horizonte, 2010.
| Cluster | Number of PHCs | Average access to individual dental treatment (minimum–maximum) | Average proportion of dental emergencies (minimum–maximum) | Average proportion of preventive individual procedures (minimum–maximum) |
| 1 (highest preventive care) | 78 | 7.1% (1.8%–24.3%) | 9.5% (1.7%–15.8%) | 66.7% (53.7%–81.6%) | 2 (highest emergency care) | 43 | 5.7% (1.0%–12.6%) | 24.2% (16.9%–41.4%) | 62.8% (44.9%–81.6%) | 3 (lowest preventive care) | 21 | 7.1% (0.7%–13.4%) | 15.8% (3.4%–37.8%) | 43.4% (28.7%–52.1%) |
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