Public health Quotes

“Eradication represents a complete change of philosophy and a recognition of the equal rights of all citizens to protection from infection, no matter where they live. Eradication, by its very nature, is public health with a conscience. The public health control officer can sleep tranquilly, salving his conscience with the thought that most of his responsibility has been discharged – that he did not have enough money to do any more. The eradicator knows that his success is not measured by what has been accomplished but, rather, is the extent of his failure indicated by what remains to be done. He must stamp out the last embers of infection in his jurisdiction. His slogan must be: ANY IS TOO MANY.”

“I have no faith in the USA corporate government systems of protection of public health and safety.”

“The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.”

“Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness.”

“Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.”

“The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.”