Approach Quote by Paul Farmer

...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.

— Paul Farmer

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel…

— Annie Lennox

“medicine is undergoing a tremendous conceptual revolution. Twentieth-century medicine aimed to heal the sick. Twenty-first-century medicine is increasingly aiming to upgrade the healthy. Healing…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I've always had strong views on social issues such as hospitals - I think we should have a good health system - and the…

— Chris Hughton

Public health is a powerful tool to level that playing field, to bend the arc of our country away from distrust and disparities and…

— Leana S. Wen

The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the misfortune to…

— Toh Chin Chye

The health of a society is truly measured by the quality of its concern and care for the health of its members . .…

— Sadullah Khan

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people…

— Ivan Illich

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social…

— Michael Marmot

I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how…

— Claudia Rankine

If you want to look at a purely socialized health care, you would have to go to the United States, where we have it.…

— Uwe Reinhardt

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

— Eric Hoffer