Ben Carson Quotes

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

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

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

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

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

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.

[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.

Protecting lives means reshaping national policies from a community healthcare angle.

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

Health is the one thing we all have in common regardless of race, creed, or income. Everyone should participate in creating the solutions.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

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.

Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.

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.

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.

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

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

The health of our nation is the wealth of our nation.

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

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...

We can no longer remain within our exam rooms and ignore what happens in our communities. As physicians and dentists, we must have a presence in both places. Our sacred responsibility is both to help the patient in front of us and also to safeguard the health of the nation.

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.