Health professionals for global health: include dental personnel upfront!

Raman Preet

doi:10.3402/gha.v6i0.21398

Abstract

The Global Health Beyond 2015 was organized in Stockholm in April 2013, which was announced as public engagement and where the dialogue focused on three main themes: social determinants of health, climate change and the non-communicable diseases. This event provided opportunity for both students and health professionals to interact and brainstorm ideas to be formalized into Stockholm Declaration on Global Health. Amongst the active participation of various health professionals, one that was found significantly missing was that of oral health. Keeping this as background in this debate, a case for inclusion of oral health professions is presented by organizing the argument in four areas: education, evidence base, political will and context and what each one offers at a time when Scandinavia is repositioning itself in global health.

Highlights

The Global Health Beyond 2015 was organized in Stockholm in April 2013, which was announced as public engagement and where the dialogue focused on three main themes: social determinants of health, climate change and the non-communicable diseases
When the Swedish Society of Medicine organized an event, Global Health Beyond 2015, in April 2013 in Stockholm with the intended outcome of producing a Stockholm Declaration on Global Health [1], the meeting was profiled as public engagement [2]
Not to be confused with yet another high-level meeting on global health [2], this dialogue focused on three main themes: social determinants of health, climate change, and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) [1]