When public action undermines public health: a critical examination of antifluoridationist literature

When public action undermines public health: a critical examination of antifluoridationist literature

BACKGROUND The addition of the chemical fluorine to the water supply, called water fluoridation, reduces dental caries by making teeth more resistant to demineralisation and more likely to remineralise when initially decayed. This process has been implemented in more than 30 countries around the world, is cost-effective and has been shown to be efficacious in preventing decay across a person's ...

Critical opportunities for public health law: a call for action.

Although legal interventions are responsible for many sentinel public health achievements, law is underutilized as a tool for advancing population health. Our purpose was to identify critical opportunities for public health lawmaking. We articulated key criteria and illustrated their use with 5 examples. These opportunities involve significant health problems that are potentially amenable to ch...

How the growth of denialism undermines public health.

Public Health Action

of the two diseases, treatment of persons with dual disease and prevention of TB in persons with DM.5 For each of these challenges, the knowledge gaps are highlighted along with the research questions that need to be answered if care and control of the dual burden of disease are to be achieved. The second review article looks at existing and new technologies for screening and diagnosing type 2 ...

Tobacco industry lobbying undermines public health in Asia.

The implementation of tobacco control measures is a political choice. Although tobacco control will improve the wellbeing of the populations that governments serve, the industry spares no attempt to deter, dilute, or delay effective measures for tobacco control, be it taxation or prominent pictorial health warnings. There is troubling evidence that the tobacco industry is exerting undue influen...