Public Health Quotes - Page 2

• When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

  Gwen Moore

  Children, Health, Funeral

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• As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.

  Michael Moss

  Children, Taken, Upset

  Michael Moss (2013). “Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us”, p.18, Random House

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• People rarely die from heroin alone, it's the combination that's deadly. Maybe we should blast that out as a public health education message. That way at least we're keeping people safe.

  Carl Hart

  Health Education, People, Safe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.

  Holly Sklar

  Drinking, School, Vaccines

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• It's critically important that people trust you during a public health crisis.

  Richard E. Besser

  People, Important, Crisis

  Source: content.time.com

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• There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Long, Victory, Done

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• I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Gun, Organization, Issues

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• It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

  Jim Ramstad

  Aggravation, Numbers, People

  United States of America Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress First Session Vol 145- Part 10, p. 14054, June 1999.

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• Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.

  Louise Slaughter

  Pregnancy, Titles, Needs

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• We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Children, Teenager, Team

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.237, Metropolitan Books

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• Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

  Neal Barnard

  Meat Consumption, Hands, Use

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• I think public health is kind of in a very sad state of affairs here in this country.

  Jill Stein

  Country, Thinking, Kind

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.

  Ruth Simmons

  Effort, Intellectual, World

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health.

  Arthur Caplan

  Children, Names

  "The Vaccine War". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2010.

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• Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Ebola, Today, Way

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• Handguns are a public health issue.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Issues, Health Issues, Handguns

  "Elders makes assault on guns". USA Today, November 09, 1993.

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• Where there are more guns, there are more gun problems, it 's particularly dangerous to have a gun around when people do things spontaneously. In college, from a public health standpoint, brains are n't fully developed.

  David Hemenway

  Health, Gun, College

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• Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Fighting, Opportunity, Growth

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• Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Ignorance, Stupid People, Obamacare

  "Advocate's Comments On ACA Now A Liability For Law's Supporters". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 9, 2014.

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• This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

  Jim Hightower

  Tired, Sick, Delay

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• It is unacceptable that the way we have treated people who have become addicted in the past is by throwing them in prison. It's appropriate that we're responding now by trying to get people the treatment they so desperately need. The racial divide here is absolutely unacceptable, and we have to do much better for all people who are addicted whether they are white, black, brown, any race - the humane way to respond to addiction is in a public health fashion and by getting people the help they need.

  Perri Peltz

  Fashion, Past, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

  John Cleese

  Wine, Order, Medicine

  "Fictional character: Reg". "Life of Brian", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Handguns are a public-health problem.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Problem, Handguns, Health Problems

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• There's an increase in serious weight disorders from cellphone use. And people who don't sleep have serious other consequences for their health that can be associated with it. There may be as well increases in problems with their memory. And all of those things are not as sexy and don't demand as much attention as cancer, but they can be very, very important from a public health point of view.

  Devra Davis

  Sexy, Memories, Cancer

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse in the public health sphere allows the state, as the owner of knowledge, to exert power of the bodies of its citizens. Risk discourse, therefore, especially when it emphasizes lifestyle risks, serves as an effective Foucauldian agent of surveillance and control that is difficult to challenge because of its manifest benevolent goal of maintaining standards of health. In doing so, it draws attention away from the structural causes of ill-health.

  Deborah Lupton

  Health Education, Practice, Ill Health

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