Public Health Surveillance Studies of Alcohol Industry Market and Political Strategies: A Systematic Review

Abstract This study aimed to summarize major methodological features and main findings described in the studies on fluoride concentration monitoring in bottled water, published in specialized journals between 2008 and 2012, highlighting their implications for public health surveillance. A systematic review was conducted searching scientific articles in the databases: Lilacs, PubMed and Scopus. Twenty-two articles from the world’s main continents were included: 68.2% informed both the number of samples and brands collected; 81.8% examined products collected in only a city or metropolitan area; 77.3% assessed the outcomes using a sound criterion; 45.5% compared the values of fluoride measured in the sample and those informed in the label, being noted significant discrepancies. In conclusion, the discrepancy between the found amount and the informed concentration in the label was quite common reinforcing the warnings raised by several researchers. The parameters that define hazard to health and instruct the content of labelling should be revised. There is an important room for improvement of the methodological procedures in further studies.

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Mobile Phone-Based mHealth Approaches for Public Health Surveillance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph111111559 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 11 (11) ◽

pp. 11559-11582 ◽

Cited By ~ 66

Author(s):

Johanna Brinkel ◽

Alexander Krämer ◽

Ralf Krumkamp ◽

Jürgen May ◽

Julius Fobil

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Systematic Review ◽

Mobile Phone ◽

Public Health Surveillance ◽

Health Surveillance ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Sub Saharan

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Economic Evaluations of Public Health Surveillance Systems: a Systematic Review

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckv250 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 674-680 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Magid Herida ◽

Benoit Dervaux ◽

Jean-Claude Desenclos

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Systematic Review ◽

Public Health Surveillance ◽

Health Surveillance ◽

Economic Evaluations ◽

Surveillance Systems

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Assessment of muscle-strengthening exercise in public health surveillance for adults: A systematic review

Preventive Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106566 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 106566

Author(s):

Jane Shakespear-Druery ◽

Katrien De Cocker ◽

Stuart J.H. Biddle ◽

Blanca Gavilán-Carrera ◽

Víctor Segura-Jiménez ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Systematic Review ◽

Public Health Surveillance ◽

Health Surveillance ◽

Muscle Strengthening ◽

Strengthening Exercise

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Woven of War-Time Fabrics: The globalization of public health surveillance

Surveillance & Society ◽

10.24908/ss.v6i2.3251 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 101-115 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Martin A. French

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Infectious Disease ◽

Cold War ◽

Public Health Surveillance ◽

Institutional Development ◽

Health Surveillance ◽

Surveillance Studies ◽

Public Health Discourse ◽

The Cold War ◽

Health Discourse

This article considers the imbrication of war-time logics with the ideational and institutional development of public health surveillance. It suggests that, as the Cold-War–era gave way to the ‘age of globalization’, public health discourse became less concerned with ideological enemies, and more concerned with ontological enemies. The discourse of emerging infectious disease exemplifies this preoccupation and illustrates how public health surveillance, dominated by war-time logics, is both globalized and predisposed to marginalized local orders of concern. However, at the same time that militarized configurations of public health surveillance set certain tendencies in motion, local orders of concern deconstruct, contest, resist, and negotiate these tendencies. Hence, this article concludes with a call for further empirical attention by Surveillance Studies scholars to the multiplicity of local sites that enact public health surveillance.

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