Global oral health initiative: World Health Organization strategic action plan

Abstract Dentistry today is a profession which is facing several challenges: Oral health is less good than thirty years ago, especially in thelow social-economic level countries and emerging countries. A reduced or poorly distributed number of professionals, which necessarily implies unequal access to care. Multiple social determinants which are more and more impacting oral health. To tackle these challenges, WHO launched the WHO Global Oral Health strategy which it goal is to guide Member States to: develop ambitious national responses to promote oral health reduce oral diseases, other oral conditions and oral health inequalities strengthen efforts to address oral diseases and conditions as part of universal health coverage; and consider the development of targets and indicators, based on national and subnational contexts, building on the guidance to be provided by the WHO global action plan 2023–2030 on oral health.