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- Title
La salud bucal colectiva y el contexto colombiano: un análisis crítico.
- Authors
Suárez, Andrés Alonso Agudelo; Herrera, Eliana Martínez
- Abstract
The practice of dentistry has undergone a process of reflection relative to other academic disciplines. This paper proposes the implementation of a new political field in the oral health agenda in Colombia by means of exploring some social and health indicators. Furthermore, principles in collective oral health were addressed: oral health as a fundamental right, community capacity for assuming the monitoring of health and its determinants, and the participation of social, economic, and academic actors and the health care services. A protagonist role by society as well as greater collective consciousness on the part of professionals, decision-makers and the health sector in general are needed.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; DENTAL care; ORAL medicine; DENTISTRY; COMMUNITY dental services; HEALTH policy; RIGHT to health; PUBLIC health
- Publication
Revista Gerencia y Políticas de Salud, 2009, Vol 8, Issue 16, p91
- ISSN
1657-7027
- Publication type
Article