Ayurveda and integrative medicine: Riding a tiger
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The global crisis in health care is deepening. For the majority, affordable quality health care seems like a distant dream. Healthcare systems need to understand the complex interplay of biology, behavior, socioeconomic and environmental factors that shape health. These factors cannot be considered in isolation from each other. Planning effective treatment of disease requires addressing them all together, fully and integratively.
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