Public health challenges cannot be tackled by departments of health alone. Matthew Heath reports on how the state government of South Australia is taking a new approach.

The effectiveness of interventions used in the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity published in a recent issue of Effective Heath Care is reviewed.

it is proved that acidic soft drinks that are commonly used, have an adverse effect on dental structures, and may deteriorate oral heath of our patients and orthodontic appliances. the aim of this study was to compare the effect of yoghurt drink with other soft drinks on the shear bond strength of orthodontic brackets.seventy-five first premolar teeth extracted for orthodontic purposes were sel...

We introduce the notion of uniformly refinable map for compact, Hausdorff spaces, as a generalization maps originallydefined metric continua by Jo Ford (Heath) and Jack W. Rogers, Jr., Refinable maps, Colloq. Math., 39 (1978), 263-269.