Shonda Rhimes Quotes

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

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

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.

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

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

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

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...

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

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.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

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 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.

Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

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.

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.

You have to get the balance right, especially with public health, so that you take the measures that benefit the public's health but without causing people to resent you so that you actually don't cure the ill that you seek to cure.

It's now evident that public health is part of national security.

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

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time

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.

We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.