What is it about?
This paper examines why water fluoridation as a public health policy frequently fails to be implemented. It argues that colleagues in Public Health need to better understand the politics of policy formation and implementation.
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Why is it important?
The paper demonstrates how a window of opportunity to implement a public policy failed to materialise because of clashes between values and evidence. Public Health practitioners need to pay more attention to such differences instead of doubling down on evidence.
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This is such an important paper for me because it shows that social and political sciences have so much to bring to public health and oral; health policy. It is the start of a new collaboration and it was a lot of fun to work on.
Barry Gibson
University of Sheffield
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This page is a summary of: When evidence alone is not enough: the problem, policy and politics of water fluoridation in England, Evidence & Policy, January 2021, Policy Press,
DOI: 10.1332/174426420x16079614941921.
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