They quickly understand the disasters that can follow a failure to invest in health care basics.

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Broadening the healthcare product means acknowledging that it takes more than medicine to advance health it also takes food, heat, housing, and other basics without which health radically declines.

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Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care.

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That said, most physicians and public health experts recommend people to stick to the basics for flu prevention: washing your hands thoroughly, getting a flu shot, staying home for work or school to avoid spreading the virus, and vigorously cleaning surfaces that you frequently touch.

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In rural areas poverty leads to a lack of the basics: food, water, primary schools, simple health care.

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There is a section with the basics, and delves as deep as you want to go into the details of health care and the Affordable Care Act.

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