Use of public water supply fluoride concentration as an indicator of population exposure to fluoride in England 1995–2015.
July 14, 2020
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
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Roberts DJ, Morris J, Wood A, Verlander NQ, Leonardi GS, Fletcher T.
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192:514.
Abstract
Public health monitoring of Community Water Fluoridation (CWF) schemes requires estimates of exposure to fluoride in public water supplies (PWS). We aimed to use routine data to estimate population exposure to PWS-fluoride in England and to determine whether PWS-fluoride exposure from 2005 to 2015 could be used as a proxy for exposure for 1995–2004, when fluoride concentration data that could be linked to population health data were unavailable. We calculated annual mean water