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[Comment] Advancing India’s oral health agenda: policy, practice and promise
Dear Dr. Sanghamitra Pati, this is your personalized scientific intelligence briefing — curated for your work in Public Health.
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Medicine · Public Health
Discovery of the day
A Lancet commentary makes the case that oral health, despite being largely preventable, remains inadequately prioritised in India’s public health agenda despite strong evidence that oral diseases share common behavioural, environmental, and commercial determinants with other major non-communicable diseases. The authors argue that embedding oral health promotion, oral cancer screening, tobacco cessation, early diagnosis, preventive care, and referral pathways within primary healthcare would significantly improve access and advance Universal Health Coverage goals. For a physician-scientist who has published extensively on public health priorities for India — including vaccine development and disease prevention — this commentary reinforces the need to integrate oral health into the broader NCD strategy, aligning with your expertise in building evidence-based, scalable public health interventions.
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