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Including oral health training in a health system strengthening program in Rwanda.
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- Oral health system strengthening in fragile and conflict-affected states: A systematic review.Journal of global health · 2024Pooled it
- Strengthening health systems to tackle oral diseases in Africa: Africa centers for disease control and prevention's role.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Knowledge, attitude and practices towards oral health among secondary school students in Huye district, Rwanda.African health sciences · 2024Article
- Challenges and opportunities for educating health professionals after the COVID-19 pandemic.Lancet (London, England) · 2022Review
- Health Professional Training and Capacity Strengthening Through International Academic Partnerships: The First Five Years of the Human Resources for Health Program in Rwanda.International journal of health policy and management · 2018Article
- Building oral health research infrastructure: the first national oral health survey of Rwanda.Global health action · 2018Article
- Predictors of Oral Health Behaviors in Female Students: An Application of the Health Belief Model.Iranian Red Crescent medical journal · 2016Article
- Dental caries management at a rural district hospital in northern Rwanda: a neglected disease.Public health action · 2015Article
- Health professionals for global health: include dental personnel upfront!Global health action · 2013Article
- Is global health really global?Global health action · 2013Article
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Abstract
objectiveRwanda's Ministry of Health, with the Clinton Health Access Initiative, implemented the Human Resources for Health (HRH) Program. The purpose of the program is to train and retain high-quality health care professionals to improve and sustain health in Rwanda.
designIn May 2011, an oral health team from Rwanda and the United States proposed that oral health be included in the HRH Program, due to its important links to health, in a recommendation to the Rwandan Ministry of Health. The proposal outlined a diagonal approach to curriculum design that supports the principles of global health through interconnected training for both treatment and collaborative prevention, rather than discipline-based fragmented training focused on isolated risk factors. It combined 'vertical' direct patient care training with 'horizontal' interdisciplinary training to address common underlying risk factors and associations for disease through primary care, program retention, and sustainability.
resultsThe proposal was accepted by the Ministry of Health and was approved for funding by the US Government and The Global Fund. Rwanda's first Bachelor of Dental Surgery program, which is in the planning phase, is being developed.
conclusionsCompetencies, the training curriculum, insurance and payment schemes, licensure, and other challenges are currently being addressed. With the Ministry of Health supporting the dental HRH efforts and fully appreciating the importance of oral health, all are hopeful that these developments will ultimately lead to more robust oral health data collection, a well-trained and well-retained dental profession, and vastly improved oral health and overall health for the people of Rwanda in the decades to come.
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