Health Intervention Quotes

We can't fight AIDS unless we do much more to fight TB as well.

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.

Do you remember campaigns like 'Keep America beautiful'? What about 'Buckle up'? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let's be a good industry that does 100% of what it possibly can - not grudgingly, but willingly.

Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention.

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

Games are such a powerful intervention in health and wellness.

It was and has been one of the major interventions in public health, and it's absolutely vital that people vaccinate their children.

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

My argument is not that we must never intervene in nature. My argument is that there is a moral difference between intervention for the sake of health, to cure or prevent disease, and intervention for the sake of achieving a competitive edge for our kids in a consumer society.

I'm a believer in biochemistry. But I tell people to try only one thing at a time to see if it works. And if you do give a powerful drug to a kid, it better have a big wow factor.

If I could control the behavior of fat guys I would make them ride mopeds more often.