Oral Health Surveillance and Care
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 869
Special Issue Editors
Interests: social inequalities in oral health; qualitative research in dentistry; systematic reviews; public health dentistry; social epidemiology; migration and oral health; oral epidemiology; life course approaches in oral health
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Interests: community dentistry; oral epidemiology; public health; biostatistics; cariology; oral health; prevention; pediatric dentistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), public health surveillance is the continuous and systematic collection, orderly consolidation and evaluation of pertinent data, with a prompt dissemination of results to those who need to know, particularly those who are able to take action. This definition has multiple applications, and amongst which are its applications to oral health. Oral diseases can be a public health problem due both to their magnitude and severity. From this perspective, Oral Health Surveillance (OHS) is useful in monitoring the incidence and prevalence of different oral diseases. This allows for the assessment of the performance of oral health systems in different geographical and social contexts and for the implementation of strategies and policies based on the social reality of communities and social groups. With a view to the above, health services are considered as an intermediate social determinant which have an impact on inequalities and health. From this point of view, it is crucial to identify the barriers and determinants that affect access to and the use of oral health services, especially in social groups considered vulnerable. We invite researchers around the world to submit proposals by using different conceptual and methodological approaches (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed) related to oral health surveillance healthcare and policy on oral health.
Dr. Andrés Alonso Agudelo-Suárez
Prof. Dr. Guglielmo Campus
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oral health
- public health
- public health surveillance
- oral health surveillance
- public dental health
- dental health surveys
- dental care
- dental public health programs
- community oral health
- evidence-based dentistry
- integrated health policies
- oral epidemiology
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