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Oral Health Issues in the African Region: Current Situation and Future Perspectives
Author(s) -
Thorpe Samuel
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.2006.70.11_suppl.tb04209.x
Subject(s) - commonwealth , george (robot) , citation , library science , oral health , history , art history , sociology , medicine , political science , law , dentistry , computer science
The African region bears, in comparison with other regions, the heaviest burden of disease despite important national and regional efforts. According to the World Bank, thirty-two African countries are among the world’s forty-eight least developed nations, and 80 percent of the people in the