Petersen Poul Erik
World Health Organization, Global Oral Health Programme, Department of Chronic Disease and Health Promotion, Geneva, Switzerland.
Int Dent J. 2008 Jun;58(3):115-21. doi: 10.1111/j.1875-595x.2008.tb00185.x.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Oral Health Programme has worked hard over the past five years to increase the awareness of oral health worldwide as an important component of general health and quality of life. Meanwhile, oral disease is still a major public health problem in high income countries and the burden of oral disease is growing in many low- and middle income countries. In the World Oral Health Report 2003, the WHO Global Oral Health Programme formulated the policies and the necessary actions for the improvement of oral health. The strategy is that oral disease prevention and the promotion of oral health needs to be integrated with chronic disease prevention and general health promotion as the risks to health are linked. The World Health Assembly (WHA) and the Executive Board (EB) are supreme governance bodies of WHO and for the first time in 25 years oral health was subject to discussion by those bodies in 2007. At the EB120 and WHA60, the Member States agreed on an action plan for oral health and integrated disease prevention, thereby confirming the approach of the Oral Health Programme. The policy forms the basis for future development or adjustment of oral health programmes at national level.
世界卫生组织（WHO）全球口腔健康项目在过去五年中努力提高全球对口腔健康作为整体健康和生活质量重要组成部分的认识。与此同时，口腔疾病在高收入国家仍是一个主要的公共卫生问题，并且在许多低收入和中等收入国家，口腔疾病的负担正在加重。在《2003年世界口腔健康报告》中，WHO全球口腔健康项目制定了改善口腔健康的政策和必要行动。其策略是，由于健康风险相互关联，口腔疾病预防和口腔健康促进需要与慢性病预防和整体健康促进相结合。世界卫生大会（WHA）和执行委员会（EB）是WHO的最高治理机构，2007年口腔健康问题在这两个机构进行讨论，这是25年来的首次。在EB120和WHA60会议上，会员国商定了一项口腔健康和综合疾病预防行动计划，从而确认了口腔健康项目的方针。该政策构成了国家层面未来口腔健康项目发展或调整的基础。
