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✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Prevention and risk

Topic: Risk, prevention and care in population studies

Public health messaging is an ethically fraught exercise. Health campaigns on dementia can not only enable equity and promote systemic health improvements but also reinforce the stigma associated with the disease or attribute moral culpability to the affected populations. As a new era of dementia prevention, marked by rapid advances in research and growing public awareness, dawns, the ethical implications of messaging need to be considered carefully.

Key findings

Health campaigns on dementia can not only enable equity and promote systemic health improvements but also reinforce the stigma associated with the disease or attribute moral culpability to the affected populations.

Why it matters

This paper discusses the ethics of allocating responsibility for dementia prevention in public health messaging. It argues that dementia campaigns can promote equity and health but can also reinforce stigma or blame affected populations, so messaging needs careful ethical consideration.

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Study details

Evidence strengthLow

How this study scored 39/100

Published in a leading specialty journal. Scored zero for study design, sample size, effect reported, studied in people and randomised / blinded because the record does not state it.

Component	Points	Why
Journal tier	9 / 10	Tier 2 — leading specialty journal (The Lancet Healthy Longevity)
Journal's citation record	1 / 4	The Lancet Healthy Longevity: journal h-index 78 (OpenAlex, 2026-10-29)
Study design	0 / 12	No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0)
Strength of evidence	1 / 5	Rated “low” in our summary
Peer-review validation	10 / 10	Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal.
How recent	4 / 5	2025 — within 3 year(s) of the newest study here
Sample size	0 / 4	Participant count not stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0)
Effect reported	0 / 3	No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0)
Studied in people	0 / 3	Not stated whether this was studied in people — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0)
Randomised / blinded	0 / 2	No randomisation or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0)
Times cited	2 / 7	Cited 11 times (OpenAlex, 2026-10-10)
Citations per year	2 / 5	3.7 citations a year over 3 year(s) since 2025
Impact for its field and year	3 / 6	Cited 7.0× the average for papers of its field and year (OpenAlex FWCI)
Cited by studies here	0 / 6	No other study in this library cites it
Still being cited	1 / 4	Cited 11 times in 2024–2026 (2026 still in progress; OpenAlex)
Senior author's track record	2 / 4	Last-listed author Joyce Siette: h-index 24 (OpenAlex, whole career)
Institution's track record	0 / 3	Western Sydney University: institution h-index 499 (OpenAlex)
Multi-centre collaboration	0 / 3	OpenAlex lists 1 institution(s) in 1 country — scores zero (affiliation lists can be incomplete)
Indexed in PubMed	2 / 2	Indexed in PubMed (PMID 40349718)
Free to read	2 / 2	Free to read
Total	39 / 100	—

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APA 7th

Knaggs, G. T., & Siette, J. (2025). The ethical allocation of dementia prevention responsibility. The Lancet Healthy Longevity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanhl.2025.100718

Vancouver

Knaggs GT, Siette J. The ethical allocation of dementia prevention responsibility. The Lancet Healthy Longevity. 2025. doi:10.1016/j.lanhl.2025.100718. PMID: 40349718.

BibTeX

@article{knaggs2025-40349718,
  author  = {Knaggs, Gilbert Thomas and Siette, Joyce},
  title   = {{The ethical allocation of dementia prevention responsibility}},
  journal = {The Lancet Healthy Longevity},
  year    = {2025},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.lanhl.2025.100718},
  pmid    = {40349718},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanhl.2025.100718}
}

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