{"title":"Dental caries rates in South Africa: implications for oral health planning","authors":"Shenuka Singh","doi":"10.1080/10158782.2011.11441463","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Despite the availability of epidemiological data on caries prevalence rates in children, there is little evidence that the issue of childhood caries is adequately addressed through policy and service provision efforts in South Africa. Given the underlying multifactorial determinants of dental caries, namely access to and availability and utilisation of oral health services, socio-economic status and dietary intake, oral health planning efforts need to address issues of policy and programmatic integration, additional fuoride uptake and the availability of primary preventive programmes.","PeriodicalId":335691,"journal":{"name":"The Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and infection","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"39","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and infection","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10158782.2011.11441463","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Despite the availability of epidemiological data on caries prevalence rates in children, there is little evidence that the issue of childhood caries is adequately addressed through policy and service provision efforts in South Africa. Given the underlying multifactorial determinants of dental caries, namely access to and availability and utilisation of oral health services, socio-economic status and dietary intake, oral health planning efforts need to address issues of policy and programmatic integration, additional fuoride uptake and the availability of primary preventive programmes.