Tuesday 9 November 2010

398. Oral Health in Portugal and the world

In Portugal there are economic resources, human and material to provide a comprehensive response to the needs of oral health care of the entire population, lack only the political will to make the Ministry of Health to assume its responsibilities and incorporate oral health in all centers health and public hospitals in the country, in perfect equality with the private sector, giving the same opportunities for access to oral health care to all persons without discrimination of age, social or economic opportunities.
Over the past few years, the Oral Health has done an analysis of oral health policy followed in Portugal. Most readers of Oral Health are from Portugal and Brazil, but we also have many readers of Spanish-speaking countries and French.
To exchange experiences, ask the readers of Oral Health resident outside Portugal to write and tell how it handles oral health care in your countries. The Oral Health has every interest in disclosing the reality of oral health policies in the various countries of the world and compare with what is done in Portugal.
Join in and write, using the email tempogero@gmail.com ; can monitor the activity of oral health in social networks, reading and subscribing to Friendfeed, Twitter and Facebook or activate the Feedburner RSS on your computer to keep track of updates to Oral Health.
Participation by all is essential so that we can alert and aware public opinion and political leaders for the Portuguese need to envisage the oral health care as fundamental to the overall health of the entire population.

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