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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