395. The largesse of 11 000 million from the state for business CITIGROUP and PORTUGAL TELECOM

At issue is the outright transfer of the fixed telephone network to Portugal Telecom in 2002. PT 365 million paid for an asset that has evaluated to date, at 2.3 billion euros. Sold to the fixed network by a sixth of its value, accused at the time Sonaecom, which stated perplexed with any business.

The need to find extra revenues is what motivated the implementation of this business, as Ferreira Leite assume the statements to i. The 365 million embedded, together with the granting of the CREL Brisa, allowed the State to respect the 3% deficit imposed by Brussels in 2002. The conditions are that the budget deficit planned for 2002 be fulfilled, he said then Manuela Ferreira Leite.

The following year, this limit was also respected thanks to another very controversial deal with the signing of Ferreira Leite, the divestiture of 11 billion of tax debts that the State had in their favor by Citigroup. Barroso's government sold these 11 billion by 1750 million.

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Have you thought about the amount of money at stake? Well, this public money for all of us was offered the two private entities without any return. Now do accounts and imagine, for example, that the money would be enough to ensure all expenditures for oral health of its population for over 200 years (5 generations); already now, please do also believe that politicians say there is no money a dentist to put in each health center in the country.

Pure shameless theft to the public good by the Portuguese government, more interested in snapping billions of euros in friends serving in the private groups that care for the public good. And then they complain of having children in the country with 10 years of age has no permanent teeth for the rest of your life.

The President's Office and the Attorney General's Office have nothing to investigate this type of harmful behavior completely by the office holders at the highest level of the state?

394. 10th edition of the Colgate Oral Health and the SPEMD

With the aim of preventing oral diseases and enhance education for proper oral hygiene among the Portuguese population, Colgate and SPEMD (Portuguese Society of Stomatology and Dental Medicine) held on October the 10th edition of Oral Health Month.

During the month of October, hundreds of doctors and dentists dentists throughout the country (including Azores and Madeira) will open the doors of their offices to make, voluntarily, free dental check-ups to the Portuguese population (without treatment or radiographic examination).

A decade later, the Month of Colgate Oral Health and SPEMD has allowed the realization of more than 95,000 free dental screenings and was institutionalized among the Portuguese population, who each year join in this campaign, and health professionals oral, to continue to voluntarily cooperate in this common effort to promote good oral hygiene of the population.

For any clarification, please contact:Emirec Communication - Cristina Brito Phone: 21 301 13 90, Mobile Phone. 918 840 101 - Email: cristina.brito@emirec.pt

How to participate? To participate in the Month of Colgate Oral Health and SPEMD, interested parties can obtain details of your stick closer to his home through the blue line - 808 205 206 daily from 17 September from 12.00 23:00. Mark your free dental check-up, directly to the office of their choice.

Sociedade Portuguesade Estomatologia e Medicina Dentária

393. 900 people from Vila Real de Santo António are already on the waiting list of dentist

After the cataract and eye treatments, which were the basis of mediated trips to the Caribbean island of Cuba, the Board of Vila Real de Santo António will now address the oral health of residents. To start with the program, six private hospitals have signed a protocol with the municipality, which will disburse a sum of 300 thousand euros.

In order to prioritize the most urgent cases, the county has also hired a dentist who, over the past two months, has been making weekly screenings in the three parishes of the county. In the case of ophthalmology, there was no network of partnerships with the private Portuguese because prices and quality were not competitive with Cuba. Now, there was an understanding of dental professionals of the county who were willing to practice a value below market prices for the treatments that were made here in the county, said the mayor Luis Gomes to Barlavento.

Asked whether the measure will open a new breach in relations with the Ministry of Health, the Social Democrat said that the only problem that exists is between the National Health Service (SNS) and the population. There are no dentists at the health center of Vila Real de Santo António and the Hospital de Faro there is only one or two, to treat the entire region, he argued.

For now, the protocol guarantees funding until the end of the year, although its color depends on the renewal policy that would occupy the chair of the executive after 11 October. The protocol is run and maintained as long as there is political will and needs of the population. It's like the protocol we have with the Republic of Cuba, which is endless unless either party can terminate it, said Gomes.

According to the mayor of Vila Real de Santo António, the 300 thousand euros now available are not sufficient to guarantee the treatments of the 900 people already on waiting lists, making it necessary to give priority to children and the elderly.

According to the program coordinator Vila Real de Santo Antonio to Smiling, Paulo Sousa, attention will be redoubled in the younger age ranges, where there are children under 10 years in the extraction of permanent teeth is now the only possible solution . About the causes of this situation, the dentist cultural issues associated with weak economic capacity of families. Note that there is, in Vila Real, groups with a high incidence of dental problems due to lack of resources to pay for routine dental treatment in private hospitals, he concluded.

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It is shameful to be Portuguese and clearly aware that the Ministry of Health, Directorate General of Health and the Regional Health Administration of the Algarve allow the existence of children under 10 years old has no permanent teeth, right in the XXI Century, in popular tourist region of Portugal. The question is simple: any child under the age of 10 years family of the Minister of Health, Minister of Education, Mr Director-General of Health, the Chairman of the Board of ARS Algarve and the President of the Dental have lost their permanent teeth?

After all, where do the billions of euros in EU funds? Is it better to invest in airports and TGV or the health of the Portuguese? It will be more interesting to give sex education in schools that address the oral health of all children without exception?

This example proves that it is possible to give a complete circuit around the bleak panorama of oral health in Portugal when the representatives of power and dentists sit at a table and dialogue to reach agreement. The oral health problems no longer exist in Portugal if it was always the spirit to be followed by government officials and representatives of dentists and dentists.

392. About 45 000 students from private schools were excluded by the Ministry of Health

In public schools just take the right age to receive a voucher to the dentist. In particular, apart from age, you must also have low incomes to get the right one.

The elementary school students who are studying in private schools may benefit from dental checks issued by the Ministry of Health if they were coming from low-income households already earn and therefore state aid to attend those establishments, confirmed to the PÚBLICO the ministry's spokeswoman, Helena Marteleira. This condition - which excludes approximately 45,000 students in private, one-third of those attending the basics here - is not provided in the ordinance that last March, has extended the issue of dental checks for children and young people under 16 years, one of the main novelties of the new National Oral Health Promotion (PNPSO).

Nor is applied to students who study in public schools or private institutions of social solidarity (IPSS), which can benefit from the check in the amount of 40 euros, regardless of their household income.

Makes no sense. The rich who have children in public schools receive their checks, but the middle class who are in private does not qualify, said Rodrigo de Melo, executive director of the Association of Institutions of Private and Cooperative Education.

You had to start somewhere and it is the obligation of the state beginning with the public school, Helena Marteleira justified. The adviser of the Ministry of Health assured, however, that by 2013 the whole of youth under 16 years will fall by PNPSO, regardless of the type of school that often. But this is a boundary assumed in full by the Directorate General of Health (DGS), which in its circulars thus describes the overall objective of the plan: At 15, young people who attend public schools IPSS and the continent must have all their teeth Permanent properly treated and protected.

According to DGS, between April and August 31 were issued 199,102 checks for dental care of children born in 2002, 1999 and 1996. By the end of last month, only 86,672 had been used. The expiry date was 30 August but was extended until the end of October, as many checks were only distributed at the end of the school year or even longer vacations, explains Luis Calado, a staff at DGS by the plan.

By December, checks will be issued for those born in 2002, 1999 and 1996. Excluding those who attend private schools are about 250 000 children, almost five times more of which were covered in 2008 by the previous plan of oral health, emphasizes Calado, who has no doubts about the positive impact of this expansion.

A study of DGS realize that, with far fewer users covered, the percentage of children with caries at age six rose from 67 percent in 2000 to 49 percent in 2005.

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This text allows several reflections. Some perspectives of analysis:

a) There are parents who can afford to place their children in private education, will also have full awareness that these parents can afford all the expenses of preventive health of their children in hospitals or private clinics?

b) Can the state (Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education) have the right to select and discriminate against citizens who should have access to preventive health care, promoting some and penalizing others?

c) What kind of society we have in the future in Portugal, from the moment that innocent children and youth are directly discriminated against in access to basic health care of any human being?

Final note: Just because bad faith appears the last paragraph of the news, the same study shows that in older children was exactly the opposite, which worsened considerably in the state of your oral health.

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391. Oral culture in northern schools

Incentive Program for Education in Oral Health (PIESO) starts next academic year in 21 schools. A project that includes books with educational activities from the first until the sixth grade and suggestions for the twelfth year.

Oral health is essentially a behavioral problem and therefore there are important tips that should be treated as soon as possible. Oral hygiene to be a theme that goes along with certain curriculum, but it is a point of honor for those working in the area.

Thinking of promoting oral health care in the school community - never forgetting the vital trio of prevention, training and education - the Portuguese Union of Oral Prevention (UPPO) prepares to put the matter on the agenda. That is, oral health will enter the circuit of 21 schools in the north of the country as early as next school year. The process is still in preparation, but the mission already has a name.

Incentive Program for Education in Oral Health (PIESO) is the name of the project that will put the emphasis on oral health in the first and second cycles of basic education and secondary education. Education and motivation for oral health are well on the list of UPPO, a working partnership involving the Regional Health Administration and the North Regional Board of Education of the North. The PIESO also encompasses training in health centers to professionals and school health teams, to promote interaction between different actors.

UPPO's president, Mario Rodrigues, explains how the program will be implemented on the ground to classes in the second, fifth and twelfth grades. Younger children from six schools of Porto, will have three sessions guided by UPPO technicians and end could be made a play for the care of the teeth are present in everyday life. Actions are a major support. The books are educational activities in oral health, says the charge. Evaluation will be done through questionnaires and some epidemiological testing.

In the fifth year, students are awarded ten sessions, two of which in charge of technical UPPO. "The remaining eight will be given by teachers." Teachers are also a target audience of the PIESO or not they were a fundamental part of the school community. For this level, there are also books for educational support and guide the activities are planned two sessions of two hours, for educators and parents.

In the twelfth year of schooling, the aim is to throw challenges in the Project Area. The PIESO comes into play so that students can grasp some of the secondary ideas in the name of a healthy culture of oral health. Here's intervention is more UPPO consultancy. And ideas abound. Create a dictionary of oral health or a practical guide on the subject. Devise educational games or planning actions to raise awareness of the little ones. Occupy a column for the school newspaper with the subject or create a story for children about oral hygiene. These are some of the work possible.

The activities of the fifth and twelfth grade will involve 15 schools districts in the area of influence of the Regional Health Administration of the North. The PIESO of UPPO, who works for the implementation of a cultural oral health in an integrated way, has several institutional partnerships, including the National Association of Teachers and the National Confederation of Parents' Associations.

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Another initiative for education for oral health. But note that in the whole project, not mentioning that all students will first be seen and treated by oral health professionals. I ask: what is the interest in these programs integrate oral health into the curricula of students is not a diagnosis made in advance and allowed the dental treatment to all children and adolescents before the implementation of the initiative?

Obviously we must first address the health and then yes to prevention, the opposite is walking with the cart before the horse.

390. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: Portal on Youtube training in dentistry and oral health

Training in Dentistry and Oral Health

University of Michigan

(Portal of videos on Youtube)

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WebSite: http://www.youtube.com/user/umichdent

389. Labelling of toothpaste

Information Circular Number 169/CD Date: 10/10/2008

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The toothpaste with fluoride for children have been, at the European level, the relatively recent reassessment of the risk, culminating in the implementation of the relevant Directive (Directive 2007/53/EC of 29 August 2007) to the Decree-Law No. 189/2008 of 24 September. Indeed, the development of tooth enamel in pre-eruptive phase may be altered by several factors, including excess fluoride. Fluoride absorbed in excess can cause fluorosis, manifesting itself in the appearance of white spots and brown glaze that is irreversible.

Given that in children under 6 years and without adequate parental supervision, the swallowing of toothpaste contributes to the amount of fluoride ingested, it was decided to add the following warning in the labeling of toothpaste, unless it is contraindicated for children:

"Children aged under 6 years: Use an amount the size of a pea, with supervised brushing to minimize swallowing. If the intake of fluoride from other sources, consult your dentist or doctor."

The manufacturers, the person on whose behalf the product is manufactured or the person responsible for marketing must ensure that, as of March 19, 2009, may only be available to consumers toothpaste containing from 0.1 to 0.15 % fluorine, which include the warning that, unless already included in the statement, for example, "Only for adults." INFARMED, IP alert health professionals and consumers on the need for verification of information contained in the toothpaste containing fluoride.

Health Products Directorate (Fax: 21 798 7281; pchc@infarmed.pt)

The Board Luisa Carvalho

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Tomorrow I'll buy a tube of toothpaste at a pharmacy and see if the law is actually being accomplished. Want to find out if the pharmacy is marketing the toothpaste inside or outside the law.

This may entail an attack on public health if the law is not being strictly enforced and monitored by competent authorities.

388. BRAZIL: oral health programs in schools

Brazil (Federal District) - Governor Jose Roberto Arruda launches this Friday at the Recanto das Emas, the Dental School, which will offer daily dental care to public school students. Starting today, the project will run in ten schools, but the goal put it to 334 000 primary school students.

Early as next week, starting to get schools to elementary school teaching materials for the development of oral health education. This material will be distributed to teachers and 334 000 students from elementary.

Last week a training was conducted with the heads of the Center for Monitoring Educational and Pedagogical Supervisors of all the Regional Education, to present papers and guidance on how to insert it into the day-to-day student. However, each teacher, depending on their individual experience, you can use the material as a route to the gradual introduction of the theme.

The elementary school teachers work on this theme oral health in a comprehensive and interdisciplinary over the first nine years of schooling.

Schools with more than 1,000 students have fixed offices. In the minors, including those from rural areas, students will be served by mobile units contracted by the Department of Health - trucks with three to four dental chairs and an X-ray machine each.

The services offered will include restorations in permanent teeth and milk, pit and fissure sealant, removal and / or pain relief, removal of foci of infection, periodontics, minor surgeries and fluoride application.

Prevention and Cure - The project, a partnership between the Departments of Education and Health, will have two fronts: a curative and a preventive and educational.

The healing portion will be held in the offices, fixed or mobile, where the service will be performed by dentists and oral health technicians gazetted the framework of the Departments of Health and Education. The educational and preventive part will be performed by these same professionals through lectures, workshops, oral hygiene orientation and toothbrushing unsupervised.

The professionals who will work in clinics in schools must reserve fixed during the five days of the week, a period in the morning and another in the afternoon to devote to oral hygiene care and achievement of students unsupervised brushing.

Actions will also take place education and prevention in oral health, which will be made to oral hygiene care and delivered an oral hygiene kit, at least three times a year to all elementary school students. This kit consists of oral hygiene toothbrush, floss, toothpaste big, fluoride, fluoride toothpaste and developer of plaque - suitable for brushing the night, an item that allows the student to identify himself if brushing is well made and correct it if necessary.

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In Brazil, the oral health programs for young people go where it takes: the school and try to cover all children and young people without exception. This example clearly demonstrates the interest in effective and concrete measures where the state is able to establish itself as the primary and fundamental element of protecting the oral health of children and youth.

This is the best example of how to protect the rights of children and youth access to oral health care is exercised by the state, also in Portugal it is for the state to assume similar responsibilities allowing oral health is an integral part of the curricula of the teaching basic and secondary, and that prevention and dental care is offered in schools for all children and young people of school age, without any limitations or restrictions.

The importance of oral health promotion at school never, under any circumstances, should be placed at a lower level to promote sex education to all children and young people should be guaranteed the right to receive all necessary dental treatment necessary for their age, they should be included educational projects in schools and the Ministries of Education and Health should make available all resources to schools for implementation.

It is time to definitively abandon oral health programs of dubious execution, always in constant change as the ministers who will be replacing each other governments, and definitely bet on a universal school oral health status of preventive and curative done in schools, partnership with the community and technical experts hired by the state.

387. 210,000 dental checks used since May 2008

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In little over a year were issued nearly 360,000 dentist checks have been used about 210 000. Pregnant women were the most benefited from the aid, followed by the elderly. The schoolchildren, the latest group to join the National Health Programme, which are less resorted to dental checks.

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The fact that those who most need for widespread access to oral health care to those who have had less access clearly demonstrates the perversion of the program.

For those who are inside the program and clearly knows his operation he understands his perverse and that it only serves to partially remedy the obvious shortcomings of the National Health Service.

Hopefully with a new government, a new team at the Ministry of Health and a new oral health policy, geared towards the real interests of people in need and not to fill gaps and meet the interests others.

The Oral Medicine can not be a privilege for anyone and must be available in the National Health Service in all health centers in the country, grouped or not in order, perfectly equal footing with the supply of private sector so as to allow them to be people to choose where to turn, it is exactly for this that we all pay taxes.

386. Excerpt from discussion between Paulo Portas and Francisco Louça (11/09/2009)

Excerpt from discussion about oral health

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