Scaling up community health workers and health system capacity must be a fundamental component of our efforts to achieve universal health coverage,… — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
Under the guise of protecting people's health and safety, we have seen the erosion of our constitutional rights, and seen our justice… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
“A Harris/Harvard School of Public Health poll of 1989 showed that most Americans (61 percent) favored a Canadian-type health system, in which… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The increased calls on law enforcement to respond to substance abuse and mental health issues in their communities have added pressure on… — Cal Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Parents, families, and caregivers are a “minority” group in the mental health system. This population is hungry for knowledge, direction, and peace… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
In 2009, when I was Health Minister, we re-engineered our business processes to examine the weaknesses and opportunities in our health system.… — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
our great common challenge ... is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our health systems,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The process of reforming the mental health system never includes the complaints that families and caregivers have regarding a need for increased… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it's a new normal. It's just not true: We've had multiple… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
We've got a [Canadian] prime minister who seems to be intent on destroying our health system and education system. But I have… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“First of all, the Cuban health system is free for everyone, without distinction of race or ideology or culture. It is absolutely… — Aleida Guevara Copy Share Image
“Resistance to change in the mental health system comes disguised as protection of civil liberties and freedom of speech. As a result,… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak. — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health… — Babatunde Osotimehin Copy Share Image
I think connected to poverty is the trauma of poverty. It's not just a material thing; it's a psychological thing that we… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system.… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; in 2011, we spent a paltry $3 million to study this issue, a federal… — Linda Marsa Copy Share Image
If you ask yourself who is paying for pharmaceutical innovation today, the answer is that it's the more affluent populations paying for… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
To be able to achieve the laudable goals (of preventing and treating HIV/AIDS), especially for us in sub-Saharan Africa, there is the… — John Dramani Mahama Copy Share Image
America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image