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Public Health Quotes

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

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 accountable.
- Neal Barnard

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

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.
- Julie Bishop

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.
- Christopher Bond

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.
- Sarah Brady

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

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 to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.
- Lois Capps

Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health... what have the Romans ever done for us?
Brought peace!
- Graham Chapman

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.
- Kurt Vonnegut

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.
- Mark Dayton

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, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
- Nathan Deal

We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury.
- Andrew Von Eschenbach

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.
- Paul Farmer

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.
- Paul Farmer

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
- Paul Farmer

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.
- Paul Farmer

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.
- Steven Hatfill

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
- Jim Hightower

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 has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.
- Robert Menendez

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.
- Gwen Moore

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
- Jamie Oliver

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
- Mandy Patinkin

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
- Anna Quindlen

The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.
- Jose Ramoshorta

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.
- Jim Ramstad

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.
- Lucille Roybalallard

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 of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
- Lucille Roybalallard

Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.
- Louise Slaughter

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
- L Neil Smith

So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.
- Jon Stewart

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.
- Samuel Wilson

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