Prioritizing population oral health through public policy in Australia: the Victorian experience.

ABSTRACT: Dental caries, a non-communicable disease, is one of the most prevalent diseases globally and share common modifiable risk factors with obesity such as excess sugar intake. However, prioritization by governments to improve population oral health has been limited and is typically excluded from the discourse of public health policy development. Therefore, interventions that target dental caries can have other co-benefits including obesity prevention. In Victoria, Australia, local government authorities have a regulatory requirement to develop their Municipal Health and Wellbeing Plans. The aim of this paper is to identify whether prioritization for oral health by local government authorities in Victoria has changed through the subsequent renewal of the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing P

SUBMITTER: Nguyen TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10411047 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature