Refugee Oral Health Promotion and Care

The scale of forced global displacement is increasing worldwide. Unfortunately, vulnerable groups such as refugees, migrants, and other people on the move often face oral health inequalities and are at heightened risk of developing diseases. Their oral health remains a neglected health issue, and this must change.

To address the oral health needs for people on the move, FDI joined forces with Lancet Migration to develop a policy brief aimed at policymakers, governments and health systems, non-governmental organizations and charities, and academics and research institutions. It sheds light on the urgent need for action to reduce oral health inequalities amongst this particular group and provides key recommendations through calls to action.

World Refugee Day on 20 June was leveraged as the occasion to launch this publication, entitled Oral health for People on the Move, and incentivize all those who can help to raise awareness and act on the recommendations.