Author/Editor		Artnik, Barbara
Title		Oral health indicators in Europe
Type		članek
Source		In: A handbook for teachers, researchers and health professionals : analysis - planning - evaluation Lage : Jacobs
Publication year		2013
Volume		str. 295-306
Language		eng
Abstract		The burden of oral diseases and the needs of populations have been changing rapidly over the past few decades. Therefore, oral health systems are required to adjust to the transition process. In order to meet these challenges effectively, public health care administrators and decision-makers need the tools, capacity and information to assess and monitor health needs, choose intervention strategies, design policy options appropriate to their own circumstances, and improve the performance of the oral health system. The aim of the EGOHIDP % Phase I (European Global Oral Health Indicators Development Project) (2003-2005) started under the European Health Monitoring Programme was to develop a set of indicators for monitoring and describing oral health morbidity and different facets of oral health care systems. As the results a set of 40 indicators in oral public health were identified. The EGOHIDP % Phase II (2006- 2008) established methodological criteria for collection of data to implement and promote oral health indicators in an operational way.
Keywords		dental health surveys health status indicators oral health quality indicators