Jan Schakowsky Quotes

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged

As America becomes an older nation, it is also, by some measures, becoming sicker.

Social inequality kills. It unduly deprives individuals and communities experiencing social deprivation of their health, increases their burden of disease and disease, and cuts short their lives.

In the developed world, income inequality within the country is the most important determinant of health standards and life expectancy.

Being an American is life-threatening. For various reasons, men and women here don't live as long as men and women in about two dozen other countries, including the ones we defeated in World War II - Japan, Germany and Italy.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a great place to be.

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

Especially some of the poorest in our society need to have the greatest support because health inequalities are too wide.

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

No one should die when they're 50.

It's amazing how often campaigners in rich countries think poor people don't get backache.

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.

All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing.