Adequate Quote by Margaret Chan

The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families are able…

— Mary Robinson

“Good quality health delivery systems with universal access protect individuals from illness, stimulate economic growth, and fight poverty by keeping people healthy. They also…

— The Lancet

We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health.

— Hillary Clinton

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

— Bill Gates

A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources to…

— Margaret Chan

There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with…

— Joel Fuhrman

Strong health and disease surveillance systems halt epidemics that take lives, disrupt economies, and pose global health security threats.

— Tedros Adhanom

We have a disease care system, not a health care system.

— Matthew Heineman

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

— Edward Kennedy

If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance to use…

— Laura Bush

“Health care is the system created to deliver the greatest revenue-generating products and procedures to address illness, but not provide health.”

— William Davis