Top 1200 Public Health Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The influx of families and unaccompanied children at the border poses many risks, including grave public health threats.

For a public option, I voted for that when I was in Congress, and the Senate couldn't stand up to the health insurance industry and took it out.

Taxes do have a clear record of curbing the consumption of, and thus the public-health impact of, tobacco and alcohol.

Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental freedoms but also. . . it undermines personal health and public safety. Regardless of your views on the civil liberties issues. . .another compelling justification for marijuana law reform: that it will promote health and safety for all of us, including our nation's children.

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.

Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.

Since the 1920s, virtually all continuing medical and public health education is funded by pharmaceutical companies. In fact, today, the FDA can't even tell health scientists the truth about vaccine contaminants and their likely effects. The agency is bound and gagged by proprietary laws and non-disclosure agreements forced upon them by the pharmaceutical industry. Let us not forget that the pharmaceutical industry, as a special interest group, is the number one contributor to politicians on Capital Hill.

Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.

During a public health crisis, families, seniors, and veterans need to have reliable access to their doctors and caregivers.

I think that if everyone did at least embrace a more plant-centered diet, it would improve public health.

Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.

Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.

Army Corps activities have a significant impact on the health, public safety, and overall quality of life for many Mississippians.

There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.

Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people is critically dependent upon the health system that serves them. It must provide the best possible health with the least disparities and respond equally well to everyone.

Mention health in most companies, and the cost of health insurance is what comes to mind, not how the company can invest to prevent further escalation in societal health care costs.

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

The fact is that eating meat and dairy is bad for your health, the health of the animals eaten, as well as the health of the planet.

When we conducted focus group interviews in the first municipality in Brazil before initiating the pilot project, a woman commented: Getting an appointment in the public sector municipal health services is like "winning the lottery." I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

It was and has been one of the major interventions in public health, and it's absolutely vital that people vaccinate their children.

Temporary is all you're going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I'm telling you about. That's eternal health care, and it's free... I've opted to go with eternal health care instead of blowing money on these insurance schemes.

I want to be incredibly clear: The United States stands for a public health approach to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.

It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.

I do not think it's good public policy to put 300,000 more Mississippians on government health care.

The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around.

If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health - you must use it or lose it!

Hillary Clinton wants to see that all Americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange.

By creating a generation of vulnerable people, especially children, with a poor, irregular diet, we are storing up a public health time bomb.

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.

When we see the corrupting influence of political decision making in our public health professionals, we should ask questions.

I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion.

The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.

Lead levels exceeding federal thresholds pose a serious public health threat, particularly for more vulnerable populations.

Nowadays, a minister of health cannot consider his or her job done simply by looking at the health care system. It's not enough to have a health policy, you need healthy policies elsewhere.

I have no truck with the faintly conspiratorial argument that international governments are gleeful about a public-health emergency to enact authoritarian measures.

The air pollution in Delhi has become a matter of public health concern nationally and internationally.

Despite heated political debates on the future of our health care system, there is bipartisan agreement that health IT can be a powerful tool to transform and modernize the delivery of health care in our country. Health IT is about helping patients and their loved ones.

I pray every day for my health, the health of my family and the health of all West Virginians. I encourage everyone else to do the same.

When people take greater ownership of their own health care and are encouraged to do that in a health plan, their health gets better. They pursue more wellness opportunities.

I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)

I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.

Nouns are seldom improved by the modifier 'public.' Few of us, given a private alternative, prefer public restrooms or public transportation or public displays of affection.

We know there is real interest from the American public in having easy access to the new, affordable choices in the Health Insurance Marketplace.

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.

Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.

Renewable energy could reduce emissions but also create jobs and improve public health.

Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.