Caries-Free Baltic: Strengthening Public Health Collaboration to Reduce Childhood Dental Caries
active 15 hours agoThe Caries-Free Baltic project aims to reduce the high burden of dental caries among children under 18 across the Baltic Sea Region through a coordinated, cross-border public health response. Despite national efforts, all countries in the region continue to face alarmingly high rates of childhood dental caries, leading to long-term health consequences and avoidable healthcare costs.
This project will bring together stakeholders to develop customized public policy solutions and capacity-building partnerships. The main objectives are to:
Evaluate the impact of existing public health services and policies for managing childhood dental caries and identify success practices and gaps.
Develop region-specific recommendations that address the shortcomings in public services and policies
Establish a cross-border Caries-Free Baltic Network to ensure sustainable exchange of knowledge, data, and strategies beyond the project’s lifetime.
The project will combine policy research, stakeholder engagement, and pilot interventions tailored to regional needs. It will produce an actionable roadmap and policy toolkit for governments and health authorities, supported by an evaluation framework to measure long-term impact.
By strengthening cooperation across borders, Caries-Free Baltic will accelerate progress toward a generation free of preventable dental caries, reduce health inequalities, and improve the efficiency and quality of public services in the Baltic Sea Region.
