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Fig. 4.3
Number of nurses per 100 000 population in Portugal and selected countries,
1996–2014
Source : WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2016.
Note: No data available from 1990–1995 for the selected countries.
The number of dentists has increased steadily since the early 1990s, reaching
85 per 100 000 population in 2013, more than in Italy, Spain and the United
Kingdom (Fig. 4.4). Since the mid-1990s, in addition to three existing schools
in the public system, several private schools for dental care medicine have
opened. Training of new dentists increased sharply in the last two decades.
Since the NHS does not offer extensive dental care coverage, dentists work
almost exclusively in the private sector. According to the Portuguese Dental
Association, there were 8933 active dentists in Portugal in 2015 (one dentist per
1161 inhabitants) (Portuguese Dental Association, 2016).
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