Resumen de Accessibility to Dental Health Care: Risk Factor in Oral Health at Rural Area Community

Ramona Amina Popovici, Angela Codruţa Podariu, Ramona Camelia Anculia, Andrada-Christine Serafin, Codruta Victoria Tigmeanu, Cristian Dan Krems, Mihaela Codrina Levai

• Evaluation of oral health represents a systematic approach of using all resources to improve the health status of the population in the most efficient way and to reduce inequalities. Providing a good health status for each individual, family and community, has determined WHO to launch a concept entitled „Health 21 – Health for all in the 21st century” which also includes oral health. A rural area community living in the Timis County represents the target group studied in this project. Research mainly focused on accessibility, addressability and motivation of the subjects regarding dental medicine services in the rural and urban area. Accessibility of dentists in the rural area is very low. The above statements reflect the interrelationship between oral diseases and the ensemble of economical, social and cultural processes, supporting the importance of dental medical care and justifying the social effort to organize them effectively.