The government is preparing to introduce new rules in the law on smoking in enclosed places. The announcement was made by the Minister of Health yesterday in Europarque of Santa Maria da Feira, after the opening session of the XV Congress of the Order of Dentists, linking them to measures of education for oral health.
The governor also revealed the intention of the government to increase in 2007, the funds for the promotion of dental hygiene by 20 percent under the national programme with the same name. "We must continue to invest in this area to reach 80 percent of children free of caries in 2020 as the target suggested by the World Health Organisation," said Correia de Campos.
For accounts of his Ministry, half of children aged under six years suffer from dental caries. The National Programme for the Promotion of Oral Health provides that here in four years all children from three to 16 years have access to dentist.
Until now, this project has already led 140 thousand children to the dentist chair. From there, Correia de Campos and extend it to pregnant women and people at risk. In the field of social support, the Minister of Health reminded the creation by the government, two thousand seats for continuous care of the elderly health and stressed the establishment of 22 units of Family Health (USF), which will be 50 by the end of the year. According to the governor, the USF (related to health centres) will allow for a universe of 125 thousand portuguese who is without a family doctor. And, moreover, represent "a window of opportunity" to improve the oral health of consultations since the dental practitioners can associate itself with them. Correia de Campos assured, however, that the social concern of the executive vai remain in 2007, as it did this year. "The government managed to meet budgetary targets without the loss of social meaning," said Correia de Campos, said that the promotion of oral health as a "concern of the Government", but pointed out that parents and teachers "should teach children to brush their teeth and using dental wire. "
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Here recorded the concerns of the Minister of Health on oral health in our country; penalty is a speech that focused mainly for the future, showing few results in this. Indeed, it appears that 2020 is expect to time for too many children and young today (adults in 2020). Also, the Minister does not mention the number and geographical scope in here are already affected the USF consultations with the oral health - too little, too little for the needs of the present.
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