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ReviewAustralian dental journal2025

Oral Health Meets Commercial Determinants: An Opportunity to Bridge Individual and Structural Approaches.

Matt Hopcraft, Adyya Gupta, Ankur Singh, Jennifer Lacy-Nichols

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Review in Australian dental journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Matt HopcraftMelbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6891-4819
Adyya GuptaGlobal Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3900-9849
Ankur SinghMelbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Jennifer Lacy-NicholsMelbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral diseases are among the most prevalent conditions affecting Australians, yet oral health agendas often focus on individual treatment rather than prevention at the population level. Viewing oral health through a commercial determinants of health lens provides an opportunity to bridge this treatment-centred approach with a prevention-focused agenda that targets structural determinants of oral health-the causes of the causes. We highlight the role of structural and commercial factors, operating outside an individual's control, that drive the high prevalence of oral disease and inequities at a population level. Good oral health is a human right, and the role of commercial actors must be acknowledged and addressed to improve health and reduce inequities.

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Mouth DiseasesOral HealthSocial Determinants of HealthAustraliaHumanscommercial determinants of healthdentistrypublic healthpublic policysocial determinants of health

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PMID40528511
PMCPMC12661129

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