Oral health databases

• Global Oral Health Database
• Oral health country/area profile programe
  WHO Collaborating Centre, Malmö University, Sweden
• Periodontal country profiles
  The Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences in Japan maintains the periodontal component of the WHO oral health data bank. Updated periodontal information is now available.

Information for policy

• Oral health priority action area: information systems
  The burden of oral disease and needs of populations are in transition and oral health systems and scientific knowledge are changing rapidly. In order to meet these challenges effectively public health care administrators and decision-makers need the tools, capacity and information to assess and monitor health needs, choose intervention strategies, design policy options appropriate to their own circumstances, and to improve the performance of the oral health system.