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“Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time”

“I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is.”

Thinking Needs Children Country Sometimes Water Clean Block Nuts Preventing Public Health Illiterate Clean Water Lunacy Resuscitation

Author:Paul Farmer

“If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike - economic growth before public health and well-being. The true enemies of the people ar those who continue to sacrifice our long-term interests for short-term gains. But perhaps we should all look in the mirror.”

“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.”

Government Support Development Appreciate Investment Following Access Budgets Fund Approval Requirements Parliament Infrastructure Public Health

Author:Jose Ramos-Horta

“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.”

Children Environment Harm Administration Pregnancy Healthcare Pregnant Emissions Public Health Mercury Pregnant Women

Author:Mark Dayton

“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.”

Want Needs Helping Half Program Active Access Planning Titles Pregnancy Pregnant Sexually Public Health Medicaid Family Planning

Author:Louise Slaughter

“"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977

“I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.”

Trying Real Ends Care Challenges Deals Environment Health Overcoming Safety Deceit Public Health Real Work Health And Safety I Do Care

Author:Erin Brockovich

“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.”

People Trying Would Be Community Challenges Animal Unions Environmental Foolish Silly Corporate Animal Rights Agriculture Public Health Animal Rights Activists Animal Agriculture

Author:Wayne Pacelle

“One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.”

Moments Inspiration Motivation Water Modern Century London Healthcare Founding 19th Century Public Health Modern Day

Author:Steven Johnson

“Handguns are a public-health problem.”

Problem Public Health Handguns Health Problems

Author:Josh Sugarmann

“Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.”

Important Might Can Do Crisis Important Things Cooking Factors Fixing Public Health

Author:Michael Pollan

“Gender, race, ethnicity - these are all morally neutral. But homosexuality is - involves voluntary sexual conduct with serious public health, social, sociological implications. It's not irrational to discriminate on that basis.”

Social Race Serious Bases Gender Irrational Homosexuality Implications Public Health Ethnicity Sociological Race Ethnicity

Author:Scott Lively

“Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts”

World Country Helping Effort Environment Military Activity Conflict Harm Accountability Fragile Public Health Armed Conflict

Author:Widad Akrawi

“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.”

War Country Challenges Environment Conflict Profound Protection Affected Toxic Restoration Public Health Remnants

Author:Widad Akrawi

“[I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United States are still being issued in West Africa and why American military forces are being deployed there without a workable plan or intelligible purpose, why CDC spending priorities are so skewed and CDC management so weak, and why here at home routine police powers aren't being used and routine public health measures aren't being implemented.”

“Gun control advocates used to claim that more guns meant more crime. Research demonstrated, though, that more guns meant less crime. As the criminology argument faded, gun control advocates began arguing guns were a public health problem.”

Problem Political Used Crime Research Gun Argument Claims Arguing Gun Control Faded Public Health Health Problems Criminology

Author:Steven Milloy

“Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.”

People Nature Land Benefits Evidence Strategy Environmental Contact Conservation Public Health Land Conservation

Author:Richard Louv

“Individuals can make choices about their own health treatments, but it is critical public health decisions are evidence based and that consumers have appropriate evidence based information about alternative health products.”

Choices Individual Decision Information Products Evidence Critical Alternatives Consumers Appropriate Treatment Public Health

Author:Metiria Turei

“The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.”

Should Age Dark White Medical Bread Department Hospitals Vegetables Sugar Soup Frozen Dark Ages Refined Menace Public Health Cubes White Bread

Author:David Reuben

“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.”

“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.”

Used Simple Blood Tests Illness Threatening Symptoms Intervention Public Health Newborn Screening Blood Tests

Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard

“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.”

Ifs Should Wells Care Social Justice Simple Opinion Approach Sick Asking Social Justice Medicine Take Care Arguing Public Health

Author:Paul Farmer

“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.”

Ifs Looks Problem Challenges Majors Mortality Public Health Haiti Rebuilding Cholera Major Problems Tuberculosis Health System Health Challenges

Author: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.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Country Done Bigs Care Mines Should Have Spread Health Care Should Have Been Public Health Retrospect Haiti Rebuke Cholera Wildfires Canaries

Author: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.”

Want Resources Capacity Competition Public Health Mindless Health System

Author:Paul Farmer

“The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health.”

Littles Important States Difficult Understanding United United States Huge Industry Benefits Available Active Medical Therapy Public Health Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical Industry

Author:Robert Jarvik

“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.”

Known Modern Authority Definitions Aids Guts Plague Public Health

Author:Larry Kramer

“There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.”

Reason Use Happened Industry Farms Factories Bans Public Health Pharmaceutical Antibiotics Pharmaceutical Industry Health Professionals

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.”

“The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have been subjected to human interference and control. One of these is man himself (medicine and public health). The other is land (agriculture and coservation). The effort to control the health of land has not been very successful.”

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse in the public health sphere allows the state, as the owner of knowledge, to exert power of the bodies of its citizens. Risk discourse, therefore, especially when it emphasizes lifestyle risks, serves as an effective Foucauldian agent of surveillance and control that is difficult to challenge because of its manifest benevolent goal of maintaining standards of health. In doing so, it draws attention away from the structural causes of ill-health.”

“Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health.”

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Author:Nikki Haley

“Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.”

“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.”

Country Helping Government Effort Proud Protect Our Country Warfare Offensive Public Health Scourge Biological Warfare

Author:Steven Hatfill

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