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Liberties, rights, public policies and water fluoridation
OBJECTIVE: To discuss the negative and positive concepts of liberty and postulate its interdependent and complementary relationship in the evaluation of public policy intersectoral actions, taking water fluoridation as a case. METHOD: To describe scopes and limits regarding 1950s Isaiah Berlin’s dis...
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Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7244233/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32491111 http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/s1518-8787.2020054001804 |
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author | de Souza, Antonio Carlos Frazão, Paulo |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To discuss the negative and positive concepts of liberty and postulate its interdependent and complementary relationship in the evaluation of public policy intersectoral actions, taking water fluoridation as a case. METHOD: To describe scopes and limits regarding 1950s Isaiah Berlin’s distinction, showing its validity in facing the harmful effects of an uncontrolled market economy and an autocratic political regime. RESULTS: Both the rights that protect citizens against a powerful state and the rights that protect the state against powerful citizens were equally acknowledged as crucial. CONCLUSION: We argued that, in a context in which negative and positive liberties are balanced, regulatory policies have double meaning. Thus, there should be a balance between the establishment of necessary rules for social protection and limits for them not to violate individuals’ rights. |
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spelling | pubmed-72442332020-06-15 Liberties, rights, public policies and water fluoridation de Souza, Antonio Carlos Frazão, Paulo Rev Saude Publica Comment OBJECTIVE: To discuss the negative and positive concepts of liberty and postulate its interdependent and complementary relationship in the evaluation of public policy intersectoral actions, taking water fluoridation as a case. METHOD: To describe scopes and limits regarding 1950s Isaiah Berlin’s distinction, showing its validity in facing the harmful effects of an uncontrolled market economy and an autocratic political regime. RESULTS: Both the rights that protect citizens against a powerful state and the rights that protect the state against powerful citizens were equally acknowledged as crucial. CONCLUSION: We argued that, in a context in which negative and positive liberties are balanced, regulatory policies have double meaning. Thus, there should be a balance between the establishment of necessary rules for social protection and limits for them not to violate individuals’ rights. Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo 2020-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7244233/ /pubmed/32491111 http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/s1518-8787.2020054001804 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Comment de Souza, Antonio Carlos Frazão, Paulo Liberties, rights, public policies and water fluoridation |
title | Liberties, rights, public policies and water fluoridation |
title_full | Liberties, rights, public policies and water fluoridation |
title_fullStr | Liberties, rights, public policies and water fluoridation |
title_full_unstemmed | Liberties, rights, public policies and water fluoridation |
title_short | Liberties, rights, public policies and water fluoridation |
title_sort | liberties, rights, public policies and water fluoridation |
topic | Comment |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7244233/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32491111 http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/s1518-8787.2020054001804 |
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