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Opportunities in oral health policy for Timor-Leste / Lucio F Babo Soares;Silvana S Bettiol;Isaac J Dalla-Fontana;Penny Allen;Leonard A Crocombe

Tác giả : Lucio F Babo Soares;Silvana S Bettiol;Isaac J Dalla-Fontana;Penny Allen;Leonard A Crocombe

Nhà xuất bản : World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia

Năm xuất bản : 2016

Chủ đề : 1. dental. 2. developing economies. 3. oral health. 4. policy. 5. prevention. 6. Timor-Leste. 7. Journal / periodical articles.

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Timor-Leste faces an urgent set of challenges in oral health. The impact of oraldiseases in terms of reduced quality of life and cost of treatment is considerable.This paper reviews progress on policy recommendations since the National OralHealth Survey in 2002, the first such national survey. Few proposals have beenimplemented to date, owing to (i) lack of local support for the recommendations,particularly on promotion of oral health; (ii) lack of financial and budgetaryprovisions for oral health; (iii) lack of focus on services, human resources anddental personnel; (iv) poor focus, design and implementation of policy andplanning in oral health; and (v) lack of transport to facilitate health-care workers’access to remote areas. Based on this assessment, the present paper presentsa reconfigured set of policies and recommendations for oral health that take intoconsideration the reasons for low uptake of previous guidance. Key prioritiesare promotion of oral health, legislative interventions, education of the oralhealth workforce, dental outreach programmes, targeted dental treatment, dentalinfrastructure programmes, and research and evaluation. Interventions includepromotion of oral health for schoolchildren, salt fluoridation, fluoride toothpasteand banning sweet stalls and use of tobacco and betel nut in, or near, schools.Timor-Leste should strengthen the availability and quality of outreach programmesfor oral health. Dental therapists and dental nurses who can supply preventiveand atraumatic restorative dental care should continue to be trained, and theplanned dentistry school should be established. Ongoing research and evaluationis needed to ensure that the approach being used in Timor-Leste is leading toimproved outcomes in oral health
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