“Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her schoolmates are much more likely to become ill. That is why some places (New York, for example) are making the vaccine mandatory for school children.” IfsChildrenSchoolIssuesNew YorkExampleDiseaseOur ChildrenIllYour ChildrenVaccinesContagiousPublic HealthVaccinationsHealth IssuesInfluenzaSchoolmates Author:Michael Specter
“Homeopathy did not merely seek to cure a disease but treated a disease as a sign of disorder of the whole human organism. This was also recognized in the Upanishad which spoke of human organs as combination of body mind and spirit. Homoeopathy would pay an important part in the Public Health of the country along with other systems. Medical facilities in India are so scanty that Homoeopathy can confidently visualize a vast field of expansion.” MindHumansImportantCountryWholeBodySpiritPayFieldsDiseaseIndiaMedicalTreatedCuresCombinationSpokesDisorderOrgansOrganismsExpansionFacilityPublic HealthHomeopathy Author:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
“I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel are really important. Gun violence, to me, is the highest-priority public-health issue, and I have to make sure Congress is aware of it, the American people are aware of it, the president is aware of it, and that we all begin together to develop policies to exterminate the disease - the epidemic, really - of gun violence.” PeopleFeelsMeanImportantTogetherUsedPresidentIssuesViolencePolicyPositionDiseaseHighestGunCongressPrioritiesBullyEpidemicsPublic HealthAdvocatingPulpitGun ViolenceHealth Issues Author:Joycelyn Elders
“First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation's health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.” FirstsStatesGovernmentNationsUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesSeriousProtectDiseaseFundamentalsThreatFederal GovernmentVirusesWellbeingPublic HealthHealth And Wellbeing Author:Marco Rubio
“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.” WayHumansLongDoneDiesVictoryDiseaseDown AndHuman HistoryWipeVirusesPublic HealthDemiseHuntedViral Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.” CitizensDiseasePressureIllnessMedicalPrioritiesAgencyHospitalsRelevantAssociationPublic HealthTop PrioritiesGreening Author:Andrew Weil
“Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease of the entire community... even in the most favourable circumstances... there would be that absence of competition and that sense of independence... I do not believe it would be good for the profession or good for the Public.” IfsBelieveWould BeCareCommunityHealthCircumstancesDiseaseIndependenceCompetitionBe GoodProfessionAbsenceHealth CareOrganizedCanadaMinistryPublic Health Author:William Osler
“That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.” ProblemEnergyEnvironmentDiseaseBiggerClimateClimate ChangeAidsFluPublic HealthMalariaPandemicsHealth ProblemsHeat Wave Author:Lois Capps