Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

I think the problem with the country is that we operate on a sickness model, not a wellness model... Basically, we treat people who become ill. What we don't do is do a very good job in keeping them healthy in the first place...

I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life - naturally.

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.

There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.

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.

Unequal development in different countries in the promotion of health and control of disease, especially communicable disease, is a common danger.

[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.

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

Health is both the foundation of my academic and professional careers and a personal passion. I know first-hand the important role health security plays in protecting lives and preventing the spread of disease.

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.

We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before.

We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health.

Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners - governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike - to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

You need to make sure everyone is healthy first and foremost.

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

The sports world, the administrators and the leagues, they need to place a high premium on the health of America, the health of the world and certainly this country.