Douglas Jay Quotes

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.

We can all agree that government can't solve the obesity crisis alone. It's an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.

I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people of Africa and the health of women are key indicators of the performance of WHO. This is a health organization for the whole world... But we must focus our attention on the people in greatest need.

One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.

The objective of the World Health Organization shall be "the attainment by all peoples of highest possible level of health.

Our health care system is terribly broken… Health comes from much more than health care and health care is much more than hospitals. We do a good job on treatment and a terrible job on prevention.

Health is more than the absence of disease…It is also education….We have a health illiterate society.

[Public Health] means the saving and lengthening of lives of thousands of citizens, the extension of the vigorous working period well into old age, and the prevention of inefficiency, misery, and suffering. These advances can be made by organized social effort. Public health is purchasable.

Well, the responsibility of the surgeon general is to make sure that the public has access to science and access to it in a way that is understandable and that is applicable to their everyday lives.

Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.

A prevention-based society is one in which every institution, whether they're a hospital or a clinic, or a school, an employer or a faith-based organization, recognizes and embraces the role that it can play in improving health.

You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.

I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.

The NHS should be proactively using substantial resources across government to intervene and try to deliver positive improvements in people's standards of living.

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

I've always been interested in public health approaches because it seems to me we have this yearning for silver bullets, and that is not in fact how change comes about. Change comes through silver buckshot - a lot of little things that achieve results. That's a classic public health approach.

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

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.