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- Title
Oral health status of asylum seekers and refugee children.
- Authors
Sagar, Aishwarya M. B.
- Abstract
Introduction: Humanitarian crisis is engulfing the world throughout. From the recent Israel-Palestine issues, Russia-Ukraine crisis, Afghanistan-Taliban's economic downturn, Syria's emergency, Sudan's disaster to Myanmar Rohingya displacement, Armenia-Azerbaijan's border catastrophe and Ethopia's conflicts. These are just few citations. The scale of global forced displacement and humanitarian crisis is already increasing worldwide with more than 2 out of 5 being children under the age of 17 (UNHCR-figures at glance). Case Report: The cost of living crisis already makes routine dental care unaffordable and experts warn of exacerbated inequalities in dental decay. Asylum seekers and refugee children (ASRC) are particularly vulnerable to health inequalities. Many families find purse strings tightening, many are facing the choice between buying toothbrushes and toothpaste or providing basic food for their children and expecting mothers. A school based study already revealed that ASRC have high rates of dental neglect (58.5%) and greater requirement for dental treatment (58.3%) as compared to nonrefugee children where it was reported as 39.5% and 44.9%, respectively (Sarri et al., 2012) Clinical Significance: The aim of this poster is to analysis the excludedness the ASRC face and how some conventions such as Refugee Convention of 1951 and its Protocol of 1967 And Framework Convention on Global health alliance, foster, dental care is provided without any discrimination, And certain organizations as FDI Wold dental federation, Global health Alliance, Sustainable Health Equity Movement and World Federation of Public Health Association make basic dental care available to such children as it's a basic step and core principle of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals "leave no one behind".
- Subjects
ORAL health; REFUGEE children; POLITICAL refugees; RIGHT of asylum; FORCED migration; MINORS
- Publication
Journal of the Indian Society of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, 2024, Vol 42, pS248
- ISSN
0970-4388
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/jisppd.jisppd_59_24