Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sibar Institute of Dental Sciences, Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015 Jul 26;4(9):575-81. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.137.
National oral health policy was conscripted by the Indian Dental Association (IDA) in 1986 and was accepted as an integral part of National Health Policy (NHP) by the Central Council of Health and Family Welfare in one of its conferences in the year 1995. Objectives of this paper were to find out the efforts made or going on towards its execution, its current status and recent oral health-related affairs or programs, if any.
Literature search was done using the institutional library, web-based search engines like 'Google' and 'PubMed' and also by cross referencing. It yielded 108 articles, of which 50 were excluded as they were not pertinent to the topic. Twenty-four were of global perspective rather than Indian and hence were not taken into account and finally 34 articles were considered for analyses. Documents related to central and state governments of India were also considered.
All the articles considered for analysis were published within the past 10 years with gradual increase in number which depicts the researchers' increasing focus towards oral health policy. Criticisms, suggestions and recommendations regarding national oral health programs, dental manpower issues, geriatric dentistry, public health dentistry, dental insurance, oral health inequality, and public-private partnerships have taken major occupancies in the articles. Proposals like "model for infant and child oral health promotion" and "oral health policy phase 1 for Karnataka" were among the initiatives towards national oral health policy.
The need for implementation of the drafted oral health policy with modification that suits the rapidly changing oral health system of this country is inevitable.
印度牙科协会（IDA）于 1986 年制定了国家口腔健康政策，并在 1995 年的一次中央卫生和家庭福利理事会会议上被接受为国家卫生政策（NHP）的一个组成部分。本文的目的是了解为执行该政策所做的努力或正在进行的努力、其现状以及最近与口腔健康相关的事务或计划（如果有）。
使用机构图书馆、基于网络的搜索引擎（如“Google”和“PubMed”）和交叉引用进行文献检索。共检索到 108 篇文章，其中 50 篇因与主题无关而被排除。24 篇文章是全球性的，而不是印度的，因此没有被考虑在内，最后有 34 篇文章被认为适合分析。还考虑了与印度中央和州政府有关的文件。
所有被认为适合分析的文章都是在过去 10 年内发表的，数量逐渐增加，这表明研究人员越来越关注口腔健康政策。对国家口腔健康计划、牙科人力问题、老年牙科、公共卫生牙科、牙科保险、口腔健康不平等以及公私伙伴关系的批评、建议和建议在文章中占据了主要位置。“婴儿和儿童口腔健康促进模式”和“卡纳塔克邦口腔健康政策第一阶段”等提议是国家口腔健康政策的倡议之一。
必须对起草的口腔健康政策进行修改，以适应该国快速变化的口腔健康系统，这是实施该政策的必要条件。
