The World Health Organisation goals for oral health: a progress report

Abstract

Global oral health goals for the year 2000 were adopted in 1981 by the World Health Organisation. A literature review and collation of available data relating to progress towards these goals have been carried out. Their appropriateness and value as measures of oral health and disease trends are discussed. The general conclusions of the study were that the concept of global goals was valuable but that the lack of standardised data collection and publication made it difficult to evaluate progress towards attainment of the goals.