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		<title>Just How Do We Define a &#8220;Culture of Health&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What determines the health of nations? The answer is not clear: individual behaviors may seem dominant but, on closer inspection, yield to a complex interplay of genetics; economic constraints; cultural norms; social interactions; one’s prenatal environment; and many other interrelated, sometimes time-delayed, physically distant factors. Given this conundrum, a useful approach is an ecological perspective. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Farming Be the Model for Health Care’s Future?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is health care really like farming? In an article in The New Yorker (“Testing, Testing: The health-care bill has no master plan for curbing costs. Is that a bad thing?” December 14, 2009) by Dr. Atul Gawande made the case that, for all their apparent differences, there may be key similarities. Dr. Gawande is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Health Records: Data you don’t want and can’t use (for now)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even before recent product launches from technology giants Google and Microsoft, personal health records (PHRs) looked like they were well on their way towards becoming a breakout health information technology solution. In addition to Google and Microsoft, PHR vendors include health plans, hospitals and academic medical centers, physician practice groups, professional organizations, employers, and independent [...]]]></description>
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