'Oral health has become a priority for dietitians'

Basic oral health needs: A professional priority?

The inadequacy of access to oral health care is a complex problem facing society. Many in society who need care are unable to obtain it or do not seek it for a variety of reasons. Most commonly, these are the unfunded, who simply have inadequate resources; the "unaccepted," who may not have dental coverage or have types of coverage that are not accepted by private practitioners; the inaccessibl...

Basic oral health needs: A public priority.

Is there a way to support a special ethical status for unmet oral health needs within our pluralistic, liberty-loving American society? Some people in American society, perhaps many people, believe that some kinds of human needs have special ethical importance. But very few people outside the oral health professions have ever considered that unmet oral health needs might belong to this category...

Swine flu: Public health has become a public nuisance.

626 The importance of everything else James Willis SWINE FLU: PUBLIC HEALTH HAS BECOME A PUBLIC NUISANCE The combination of speculative scaremongering by national health authorities and increasingly absurd directives to GP surgeries in response to the current flu outbreak confirm that public health has become a public nuisance. In July this year health minister Andy Burnham announced that the s...

Reasoning has become a luxury

It is being talked about all over the world; an editorial in the Economist of 19 October 2013 entitled " How Science Goes Wrong " reports a dramatic decline in the quality of scientific publications. Research has changed the world, now it needs to change itself, the subheading reads. The detailed report is based on facts which are difficult to disprove; an example being a Harvard biologist, Joh...

Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority