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- 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
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I want is a strong NHS delivering the highest standards of care anywhere in the world, and that is true to the founding values of the NHS, and I hope that, looking back on my time as health secretary, people can see that, actually, the foundations for that change were laid in the period that I was health secretary.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food qualities, they are also now wanting it in terms of other values: 'Does this speak about my position in society? Am I now middle-class, and does this matter to me?'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity.
- Health Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer there, doing health and education work when I was younger and living in Egypt.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
A screenplay adaptation of my 'Punktown' novel 'Health Agent' has been making the rounds. The screenplay was written by my friend, singer/songwriter Walter Egan of 'Magnet & Steel' fame!
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020