Community Dental Health

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Cover Date:
December 2010
Print ISSN:
0265 539X
Vol:
27
Issue:
4

Editorial - Improvement of global oral health - the leadership role of the World Health Organization

Progress towards a healthier world requires strong political action, broad participation and sustained advocacy. The World Health Organization Global Oral Health Programme (WHO GOHP) has worked hard over the years to put oral health high on the health agenda of policy and decision makers worldwide. In 2007, the WHO was given a unique mandate for strengthening the work for oral health by its two governing bodies, i.e. the Executive Board, and the World Health Assembly (WHA). A comprehensive report on global oral health was prepared by the Secretariat (WHO GOHP) for the governing bodies, and the World Health Assembly subsequently agreed on a Resolution (WHA.60.17) which reads: “Oral health: action plan for promotion and integrated disease prevention” (Petersen, 2008; Petersen, 2009). This statement is a wide-ranging policy that gives the direction to better oral health of people in the 193 Member States. The WHO statement is an impetus for countries to develop or adjust national oral health programmes, and the policy is a strong support to the global actions carried out by the WHO GOHP over the recent years. The action plan for oral health promotion and integrated disease prevention encompasses several elements. agement of childhood illness and for the reduction of malnutrition and poverty. 10. incorporate an oral health information system into health surveillance plans. 11. strengthen oral health research. 12. address human resources and workforce planning for oral health as part of every plan for health. 13. consider increasing the budgetary provisions that are dedicated to the prevention and control of oral and craniofacial diseases and conditions

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Page Start
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Authors
Poul Erik Petersen

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  1. Dental caries experience of Kuwaiti kindergarten schoolchildren
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  1. Editorial - Improvement of global oral health - the leadership role of the World Health Organization
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  1. Trends in childrens’ ability to consent to a dental examination and the potential impact on reported caries indices
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  1. Tooth surface loss, prevalence and associated risk factors among 12-14 years school children in Khartoum State, Sudan
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  1. Trends in dental caries experience among children and adolescents in northern Poland between 1995 and 2003.
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  1. Oral health status of Chinese teenagers with cerebral palsy
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  1. Heavy consumption of dental services among Finnish adults
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  1. Five-year follow-up of oral health and seizure condition of patients with epilepsy: a prospective observational study
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  1. Distribution of certain types of occlusal anomalies among Saudi Arabian adolescents in Jeddah city
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  1. Oral health-related quality of life of elderly Germans comparison of GOHAI and OHIP-14
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  1. Salivary Streptococcus mutans level: value in caries prediction for 11-12-year-old children
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  1. Short Communication - The quality of reporting of randomised controlled trials in dental public health
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