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Changes in oral care in
health systems
CHINA
Dra. Eva Cortes
Carolina Herrera
II CO 2014
With a population of around 1.3 billion
people China is one of the most
populous countries in the world and
one of the largest countries with high
economic growth. Life expectancy is
around 70 years old, about 5% of the
national wealth is spent on health.
China a socialist system
which states:
Posed by the distribution of public
goods, either for political power
distributed to the benefit of society.
China has 22 provinces, of which, 5 autonomous
regions and 4 municipalities, taking levels of
government, cities, counties and districts, the
lowest levels are the districts and villages.
Since 1949 the Republic of China was
established which brought benefits in terms of
health, around 2000s a health service run by
hospitals, although it can provide only a small
part of these services at the level of oral health
occurred.
With regard to the practice of exercising a
degree is required, the government is also
supervisor of operators that dental assistants are
well separated
With the foundation in 1949 of the
People's Republic of China (hereinafter
China), an important aspect of the
planned economy was that the
responsibility for health services primarily
rested with the state and state
enterprises.
Following the shift towards the
introduction of the market economy in
the early eighties, state enterprises could
no longer bear alone the financial costs
of social security and health services,
primarily because of competitive
pressures
Reform was urgent, because with the gradual
breakdown of the system of health services a
majority of rural residents and urban residents
unemployed no longer receiving medical care
and state should fund their own costs of health
services.
In 1998, a basic health insurance was established,
but coverage only urban workers was initially
extended.
To illustrate the coverage gap in the Chinese
system in the late 1990s, about 50 percent of the
urban population and 80 percent of the rural
population were not covered by health insurance
or did not have access to health services
The knowledge of the professionals on preventive dentistry was outdated.
Until 1980 they had not taken courses in preventive dentistry in dental schools in China,
when the first Department of Preventive Dentistry was established in the Faculty of
Stomatology, Beijing Medical College (now Faculty of Stomatology, Peking University) .
According to a recent study 90% of the population practicing the correct
toothbrushing expected.
In 1988 a system (NCOH), which
has created the following tasks:
Assist the Ministry of Health policies for prevention and
treatment of oral diseases
The development of dental manpower plans
Coordinate activities for oral health care
There are more than 30,000 dentists in China, and
there are more than 40 universities that provide career
for people who have education up to twelve years.
A WHO report in 2003 documented that cavities
are decreasing in younger than 12 years in
developed countries, but increasing in developing
countries, where most children live why the
Chinese government has provided great benefits
as what bloom is water campaigns and health
promotion.
Most dentists are at the public level, whether in
private sector wealth for people that need it as
well as patients have great benefits.
CONCLUTION
In China for forty thousand inhabitants is a dentist,
while in our country there is great variety and number
of dentists, but compared Costa Rica offers the
advantage of studying in fewer years with a great
success rate thanks to the graduates.
Generally as dentists must keep prevention tool as well
as China and developed countries do, is the best
weapon against disease.
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New Malden, U.K.: Quintessence
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Liu, B. D. (2013). El sistema de salud de China: entre la
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