Objective To know the influencing factors for the popularization of tap water in endemic fluorosis areas. Methods The families were randomly selected from Dongdingwang and Xinzhuang in Donghai county,Jiangsu province and were investigated with questionnaire and all members from these families were diagnosed for dental fluorosis with Dean’s method on May 2006. The influencing factors were analyzed with multifactor non-conditional Logistic regression. Results There was no significant difference on the popularization of tap water between the 2 villages (P=0.454). The relative location of the home in village was the risk factor. The size and the economic condition of the families and the householder’s knowledge on the tap water were protective factors. Conclusion The popularization of tap water should be extremely improved based on the improvement of the main influencing factors.

Discordance, such as overlap, repetition and inconsistent, of standards is one of the major problems in current standardization affair in China. Therefore, improving the unity and authority of standards through reduction of overlap, repetition and inconsistency has become the main goal of deepening standardization reform in China. This paper summarizes the discordance in public health standards in China, analyzes the major reasons and provides specific strategic suggestions through case analysis of public health standards in the ways of comparisons of same kind standards of other deparments and standards in administration documents and guidelines or technical specifications of academic associations or societies.