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- Expanding the health care debate - health care should begin in the classroomShow More
Recognizing the role of health education is central to any discussion about the long term sustainability of our health care system.
Many of the diseases which consume millions (billions?) of health care dollars are essentially diseases of choice - diabetes, heart disease, many forms of cancer to name a few - where lifestyle decisions play a vital role. The human and financial cost of inactivity and poor nutrition...
Competing Interests: None declared. - Complex Systems Health: Expanding the health care debate even further.Show More
David Suzuki writes that the health of our citizens is inextricably linked to the health of our surrounding ecosystems (1), in seeking to expand the health care debate to include ecosystem health, with far reaching implications for the future of health care. The more fundamental concept of complex systems health would expand this debate even further to include not only the topics covered by ecosystem health, but all of m...
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