PAHO Post-Disaster Guidelines for Oral Health
PAHO Post-Disaster Guidelines for Oral Health. Organización panamericana de la Salud, Washington, 2010, 58 p., ilus.
Natural disasters and other emergency events cause suffering to the affected population and generally disrupt the local health care system?s capacity to function. The negative impact on health services not only can undermine years of work toward improving the health system infrastructure but also introduce new barriers to the provision of primary care services, including dental and oral health. In previous disasters, oral health has been overlooked and has not been identified as a priority, even though it is an integral part of overall health that cannot be ignored.
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