The Brazilian National Oral Health Policy and oral cancer mortality trends: An autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model.
Elisa Miranda CostaElisa Santos Magalhães RodriguesFrancenilde Silva de SousaFelipe Bezerra PimentelMariana Borges Sodré LopesJoão Ricardo Nickenig VissociErika Barbara Abreu Fonseca ThomazPublished in: PloS one (2023)
The Brazilian NOHP is not being effective in reducing the OCMR. The trends behaved differently in the Brazilian territory, highlighting health inequities. We recommend that the NOHP strengthen the oral health care network, incorporating oral cancer as a notifiable disease, adopting strategies for prevention, screening, and providing opportunities for early treatment of the disease.