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		<title>Why doctors should give climate change the right treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/20/why-doctors-should-give-climate-change-the-right-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/20/why-doctors-should-give-climate-change-the-right-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 03:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[royal Australasian college of physicians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the lancet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Public health organisations and the peer-reviewed literature increasinge recognised the serious impacts for our health should we fail to tackle climate change, write <b>David Shearman, George Crisp</b> and <b>David King</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The fattest nations on the planet</title>
		<link>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/health/101118/fat-and-fatter-worlds-10-fattest-countries</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/health/101118/fat-and-fatter-worlds-10-fattest-countries#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obesity epidemic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australians may be fat, but we ain't fat enough to make the top ten list of countries (to be fair, we make the top twenty) of the WHO's most obese nations. A whopping 95% of Nauru's population is overweight and]]></description>
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		<title>Should you have to be wealthy to be healthy?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/27/should-you-have-to-be-wealthy-to-be-healthy-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/27/should-you-have-to-be-wealthy-to-be-healthy-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Those in the lowest socio-economic group die three years earlier than the rest of the nation, writes <b>Martin Laverty</b>, CEO of Catholic Health Australia.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Panicking over the WHO influenza pandemic</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/06/07/industry-experts-and-the-pandemic-scandal-at-who/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/06/07/industry-experts-and-the-pandemic-scandal-at-who/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[influenza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[influenza outbreak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Will the scandal about undeclared industry ties of experts who advised the World Health Organisation on pandemic influenza claim the scalp of the Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan? asks <b>Melissa Sweet</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Expert calls for health inequalities to be on the election agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/24/expert-calls-for-health-inequalities-to-be-on-the-election-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/24/expert-calls-for-health-inequalities-to-be-on-the-election-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Health and Equity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fran Baum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicola Roxon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Successive Australian governments have failed to tackle the social and economic inequities that result in some people having shorter, unhealthier lives than others, writes <b>Melissa Sweet</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Social inequality is toxic to our health</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/social-inequality-is-toxic-to-our-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/social-inequality-is-toxic-to-our-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eva Cox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Higher taxes and costs will drive some low income people to cut their spending but those with least sense of self control will go without food instead, writes <b>Eva Cox</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>We US nurses want a national Medicare system just like you</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/18/we-us-nurses-want-a-national-medicare-system-just-like-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/18/we-us-nurses-want-a-national-medicare-system-just-like-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nurses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not only is the US healthcare system an international embarrassment, the World Health Organization ranks the U.S as just 54th in healthcare "fairness" behind Bangladesh, writes <b>Rose Ann DeMoro</b>, executive director of National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The politics of swine flu</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/27/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-21/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/27/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-21/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 03:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bird flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Richard Farmer</b> looks at the politics of dealing with a flu pandemic and catches up with pollies across the Tasman.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Flu fears divert us from the main game</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/30/flu-fears-divert-us-from-the-main-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/30/flu-fears-divert-us-from-the-main-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health scare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiv aids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Heart attacks and strokes globally cause millions upon millions more deaths than all infectious diseases -- flu included, writes <b>Stephen R Leeder</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The ding dong Dick is dead edition</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/29/the-ding-dong-dick-is-dead-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/29/the-ding-dong-dick-is-dead-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canberra Calling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Pratt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=56788</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Swine Flu stalks the land -- but not according to the World Health Organisation.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/29/the-ding-dong-dick-is-dead-edition/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Swine flu pandemics and other porkies</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/29/swine-flu-pandemics-and-other-porkies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/29/swine-flu-pandemics-and-other-porkies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicola Roxon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In terms of impacts on human lives, the current outbreak of swine flu in North America is minimal.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/29/swine-flu-pandemics-and-other-porkies/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>And now for some positive news about pandemics</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/28/and-now-for-some-positive-news-about-pandemics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/28/and-now-for-some-positive-news-about-pandemics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pandemics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's still unclear whether the new form of H1N1 influenza, first identified in Mexico, will spread easily around the world, writes <b>Professor John D. Mathews</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pandemic panic: should doctors sound the alarm?</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/health/28docs.html?hpw</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/health/28docs.html?hpw#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Nethercote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=53647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Health officials dealing with swine flu are in a “damned if they do, damned if they don’t” situation.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/health/28docs.html?hpw/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Three studies that should make a difference to Australian health care</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/25/three-studies-that-should-make-a-difference-to-australian-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/25/three-studies-that-should-make-a-difference-to-australian-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sax institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's how policy makers can improve the safety of surgery or improve the outcomes for elderly patients requiring hospital treatment, writes <b>Mary Haines</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>WHO wants radical redistribution of wealth to improve health</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/29/who-wants-radical-redistribution-of-wealth-to-improve-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/29/who-wants-radical-redistribution-of-wealth-to-improve-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new WHO report’s key recommendations focus on changing social structures and reducing inequality, in order to prevent disease and improve people’s health and happiness, writes <b>Ray Moynihan</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/29/who-wants-radical-redistribution-of-wealth-to-improve-health/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Circumcision might be the kindest cut</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/20/circumcision-might-be-the-kindest-cut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/20/circumcision-might-be-the-kindest-cut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adult male circumcision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiv infections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiv transmission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world health organization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Health Department in South Australia is now reviewing its position on male circumcision after Victoria joined NSW, Western Australia and Tasmania and recently stopped allowing the procedure at public hospitals for non-medical reasons, writes Dr Alex Wodak
]]></description>
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		<title>WHO says kava is safe, Australia bans it</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/11/who-says-kava-is-safe-australia-bans-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/11/who-says-kava-is-safe-australia-bans-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ban kava]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[messrs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piper methysticum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Health Organisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[South Pacific producers of kava were delighted this week at the publication of a World Health Organisation report declaring kava to be a safe product although one that should be available on prescriptions and not over the counter in an attempt to better monitor its use and put in place some sort of control. ]]></description>
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