Public Health Quotes

Public Health Quote of the day

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.

Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

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.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

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.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

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

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

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

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

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies.

Handguns are a public health issue.

Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.

From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

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.

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.

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

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

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.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

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.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

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.

The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.

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?

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

The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.

In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public health, and life is relatively good for more people than ever before.

I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine.

Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.

Handguns are a public-health problem.

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

Many years ago I was part of a public health movement that raised concerns about the mercury in vaccines and about the heavy dose that infants get - used to. They don't anymore.

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