Oral health information systems - towards measuring progress in oral health promotion and disease prevention

This article describes the essential components of oral health information systems for the analysis of trends in oral disease and the evaluation of oral health programmes at the country, regional and global levels. Standard methodology for the collection of epidemiological data on oral health has be...

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Main Authors: Poul Erik Petersen, Denis Bourgeois, Douglas Bratthall, Hiroshi Ogawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2005-09-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862005000900014&lng=en&tlng=en