Early Childhood Caries in Peru
| Autor: | Camila Palma, Jorge L. Castillo, Ailín Cabrera-Matta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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media_common.quotation_subject oral health children Psychological intervention MEDLINE oral health education Review Literacy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine early childhood caries Environmental health Peru Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine oral health related quality of life media_common Poverty business.industry lcsh:Public aspects of medicine 030503 health policy & services Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health lcsh:RA1-1270 Guideline medicine.disease Child development stomatognathic diseases dental caries High sugar Public Health 0305 other medical science business Early childhood caries |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Public Health Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 7 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2296-2565 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00337 |
| Popis: | Early Childhood Caries (ECC) is a global oral health problem, and Peru may be one of the countries with high prevalence of untreated ECC in South America. In this study, we constructed an epidemiologic profile of ECC in Peru through a comprehensive review of published data. The prevalence of ECC, risk factors for it, its impact on child development, and public oral health interventions on ECC have been included. The study revealed extremely high rates of ECC in Peru and significant oral-health disparities. Risk factors for ECC were poverty, high sugar consumption, and low oral health literacy. However, the number of studies is limited and their quality questionable. Oral health has not received high public-health priority in Peru. However, in recent years, new regulations and evidence-based documents (the first Clinical Practice Guideline for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Caries in Children; the Guideline for Children's healthy Growth and Development; the Law on Healthy Diet; and the Manual on Food Advertising) give hope for the future of infants' oral health in the nation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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