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• Ebola has killed almost 12,000 people and at least 500 health workers. So it affected the entire population. And as you know, the World Health Organization was accused of not having declared an epidemic soon enough. And that's when we saw Ebola rampaging through Sierra Leone, Liberia and, to a lesser extent, Guinea.

  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

  Epidemics, Ebola, Soon Enough

  "World Health Organization Declares Guinea Ebola-Free". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared.

  Liya Kebede

  Commitment, Government, Effort

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• The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

  Andrew Weil

  Organization, Acupuncture, World

  "Integrative Mental Health: A New Model For Depression Relief" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Years, Data, Organization

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• Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s, and in this excellent book these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that decision. Our children have not suffered greater tooth decay, as World Health Organization figures attest, and in turn our citizens have not borne the other hazards fluoride may cause

  Arvid Carlsson

  Children, Book, Organization

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• The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

  Peter Agre

  Winter, Careers, Long

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• World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners - governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike - to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission.

  Kofi Annan

  Mother, Children, Health

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• I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.

  Robert Winston

  Country, Korea, People

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• The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Years, Europe, Organization

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• My final conclusion after 40 years or more in this business is that the unofficial policy of the World Health Organization and the unofficial policy of the Save the Children's Fund and almost all those organizations is one of murder and genocide. They want to make it appear as if they are saving these kids, but in actual fact they don't

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Children, Kids, Years

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• The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

  Pauline Hanson

  Drug, Black, Experts

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Organization, Risk, Development

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• Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Health, Everyday, World

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• Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Average, Years

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• According to the World Health Organization, an average of Rs. 6500 per person was lost in India due to lack of cleanliness and hygiene. Swachh Bharat would make a significant impact on public health and in safeguarding income of the poor, ultimately contributing to the national economy.

  Narendra Modi

  Average, Hygiene, Organization

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• A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, 'Delay, Denial and Dilution,' written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes that the World Health Organization calculated that Britain has as many as 25,000 unnecessary cancer deaths a year because of under-provision of care.

  Walter E. Williams

  Cancer, Years, Organization

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.272, Hoover Institution Press

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