Oral Health in The African Region: A Regional Strategy
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1. The important contribution of oral health to general community health and well-being hasbeen highlighted in resolutions adopted at the World Health Assembly (WHA) and RegionalCommittees. However the impact of these resolutions had been limited.2. Previous approaches to oral health in Africa have failed to recognize the epidemiologicalpriorities of the Region or to identify reliable and appropriate strategies to address them. Effortshave consisted of the provision of unplanned, ad hoc and spasmodic curative oral health services,which in most cases are poorly distributed and only reach affluent or urban communities.3. There is therefore a compelling need to review existing strategies and develop acomprehensive strategic framework to support countries in the Region.4. This document focuses on the most severe oral problems that people have to live with, likenoma, oral cancer and oral consequences of HIV/AIDS infection. It proposes a strategy forassisting Member States and partners to identify priorities and interventions at various levels of thehealth system, particularly at the district level.5. The strategy aims at strengthening the capacity of countries to improve community oral healthby effectively using proven interventions to address specific oral health needs. It represents a newapproach that has the potential to fundamentally improve community oral health in the AfricanRegion.6. The Regional Committee is invited to review the proposed oral health strategy for the AfricanRegion for the period 1999-2008 and provide orientations for the enhancement of oral health inMember States in the Region.
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Regional Committee for Africa, 48 (1998). Oral Health in The African Region: A Regional Strategy. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/1748
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Regional committee for Africa Forty-eight Session, Harare, Zimbabwe 31 August - 4 September 1998: Provisional agenda item 8,3
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English