Publications by authors named "L C McLaren"
Economic policy and public health: Insights from the history of the Canadian Journal of Public Health.
Can J Public Health
October 2024
The nearly 115-year history of the Canadian Journal of Public Health (CJPH) provides an important opportunity to reflect on and learn from our past. In response to an invitation to members of the CJPH Editorial Board to curate historical articles around a theme, we undertook a historical examination of our field's engagement, as gleaned through the pages of CJPH, with economic policy. This was inspired by the now well-established connections among political economic policy, population well-being, and health equity.
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- Circumcision is commonly performed for various reasons, and this study aimed to assess if routine histopathological examinations of foreskin specimens are necessary after adult circumcision.
- A retrospective analysis of 334 male patients showed that only 2.7% had preoperative clinical suspicions, and among them, only 0.9% were found to have malignancy.
- The majority of patients (97.3%) with no suspicious features preoperatively showed no signs of malignancy, suggesting routine histopathological examination may not be required for every case.
Background: Community water fluoridation is one component of a multifactorial approach to preventing dental caries. Yet, fluoridation monitoring in Canada has historically been fragmented, and recent national estimates give little indication of trends at the provincial or municipal levels. We aimed to quantify fluoridation exposure trends in Alberta from 1950 to 2018 at both the population and municipal levels.
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