Bill Gates Quotes About Health Care

Quotes about: Health Care

• The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Vaccines, People

• Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.

  Bill Gates

  Strong, Opportunity, Discovery

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Children, Thoughtful

• Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Technology, Government

  "Bill Gates On The Future Of American Energy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 13, 2010.

• Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

  Bill Gates

  Broken, Income, Care

• Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there.

  Bill Gates

  Simple, Government, Organization

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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