347. Balance of the National Oral Health

The Directorate - General Health

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This serves to request, under the School Health Programme of the Directorate General of Health, detailed information such as balance, about all the interventions made at school during the past academic year or, alternatively, in the last calendar year, related to oral health.

Given that the program is aimed at promoting oral health, monitor the implementation of the Global Survey of Health, at 5-6 years and 11-13 years, promoting the development of personal and social skills and identify children at risk of psychiatric disorders, promote equity among students, and aims, among others, to promote and protect health and prevent disease in the educational community and contribute to the promotion of healthy lifestyles, with the audience throughout the educational community of Gardens childhood, School of Basic Education and Secondary Education and other institutions with intervention in middle school, and in compliance with the Protocol signed on February 7, 2006 between the Ministries of Health and Education, asked if a detailed assessment and broken by regions and districts of interventions in schools as part of oral health, particularly the number of consultations with the specialty of Dentistry that children and adolescents have had access after the protocol, and the treatments carried out and monitoring currently done in primary schools and secondary schools in the country.

More thanks to the release of other partnerships as well as any information that becomes relevant and to be circulated to all schools, to ensure equal access to the program by all children and adolescents enrolled in primary and secondary schools across the country.