Public Health Quotes

• Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time

  C. Everett Koop

  Care, Health Care

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• It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Educational, Opportunity

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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  He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fitness, Hope

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• And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

  Julie Bishop

  Motivational, Fitness, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

  Herbert Hoover

  Suffering, Benefits, Return

  Herbert Hoover, Arnold S. Rice, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1971). “Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Care, Firsts, Duty

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• We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign danger.

  Hillary Clinton

  Needs, Danger, Should

  "Hillary Clinton voices support for electronic disease surveillance" by Frank Buckley, www.cnn.com. October 14, 1999.

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• You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

  Paul Farmer

  Competition, Want, Resources

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.

  Michael Marmot

  Action, Strategy, Social

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• Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts?

  Sarah Wollaston

  Car, Sitting, Want

  "Big tobacco has got its way - now let's find what big alcohol is up to" by Sarah Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2013.

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• If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.

  Julie Gerberding

  Common Sense, Pandemics, Able

  "Health agency: SARS pandemic can be avoided". www.cnn.com. April 28, 2003.

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• Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.

  Hermann Biggs

  Community, Important, Natural

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• The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

  Anna Quindlen

  Health, Men, Usa

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• We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.

  Bob Menendez

  Strong, Reality, Community

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• Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health.

  Narendra Modi

  Commitment, Political, Tools

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• Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

  Diane Abbott

  Missing, Debate, Mental Health

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• Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Education, Money, Powerful

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Views, People, Problem

  "Medicating Mania". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.

  Erin Brockovich

  Real, Health, Safety

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• Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Country, Children, Dangerous World

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

  Paul Farmer

  Simple, Medicine, Justice

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• Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.

  Michael Pollan

  Cooking, Important, Might

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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• I think that if everyone did at least embrace a more plant-centered diet, it would improve public health.

  Bryant Terry

  Thinking, Embrace

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• Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.

  Rick Rollens

  Cancer, Vaccines, Autism

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