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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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Autores principales: de Souza, Antonio Carlos, Frazão, Paulo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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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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.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7244233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32491111
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