- Nov 07, 2020
Health Quotes
Health is measured in more than numbers.
These quotes move between the personal and the civic - years spent caregiving for family, running as a way to protect mental health, and a bridge metaphor used to argue that a society's health depends on its weakest members, not its averages. See our Change Quotes for related ideas.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody's going to pay for health coverage for the American people, and the question is, how do you do that?
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ebola so scary and so unfamiliar, it's really important to outline what the facts are and that we know how to control it. We control it by traditional public health measures. We do that, and Ebola goes away.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over and over, nature shows that it's a really tough adversary. That's why it's important that we invest in laboratories, disease detectives, research, mosquito control, the public health system around the world to find, stop, track, prevent health threats.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health is correlated with quality of life. If you get regular physical activity, have social connections, control your cholesterol, keep your blood pressure at a normal level, don't smoke - these things can make an enormous difference not only in how long you live, but how much you enjoy your life in those years.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bottom line is that Ebola is hard to treat, and when the first patient ever with Ebola came to the United States, we thought the guidelines would protect the health care workers.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to not stopping the spread of Ebola, isolating countries will make it harder to respond to Ebola, creating an even greater humanitarian and health care emergency. Importantly, isolating countries won't keep Ebola contained and away from American shores.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
New, unfamiliar, and mysterious threats to our health are scary. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - where we identify, on average, one new health threat each year - we work around the clock with an approach that prioritizes finding out what we need to know as fast as we can to protect Americans.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people.
- Estimated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between 2000 and 2010, malaria mortality rates fell by 26 percent around the world. According to the latest World Health Organization estimates, there were about 219 million cases of malaria in 2010 and an estimated 660,000 deaths.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health care providers can follow guidelines for responsible painkiller prescribing and talk with their patients about the risks and benefits of taking prescription painkillers.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020