Public Health Quotes
95 Public Health quotes by 86 unique authors
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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…
— Neal Barnard
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Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
— Diane Abbott
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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
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public…
— Bono
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This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't…
— Dan Buettner
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In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated…
— Richard Carmona
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Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease…
— William Osler
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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…
— Rick Rollens
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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple…
— Robert D. Putnam
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The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance…
— Richard Owen
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That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.
— Lois Capps
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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…
— Herbert Hoover
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After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of…
— Jerry Brown
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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…
— Bob Menendez
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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…
— Nelson Mandela
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Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out…
— Lucille Roybal-Allard
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I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve…
— Lois Capps
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If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health,…
— Nathan Deal
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It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer…
— Naomi Klein
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The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from chemical contamination, there needs to…
— Lois Gibbs
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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
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I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure…
— Paul Farmer
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If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike - economic growth…
— Susannah York
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