Population Health Quotes

Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage.

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.

I was at Harvard Medical School and there were not a lot of, kind of, community health options, and I wound up at - sort of in Harvard Community Health Center for various reasons.

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

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

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.

I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

When you look at the fittest, leanest populations like Japan and Scandinavia, they don't even go to the gym. The average person in Sydney takes 11,000 steps a day, and the average person in Houston does 4000. Guess who is going to be leaner, regardless of their diet?

When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox

Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people is critically dependent upon the health system that serves them. It must provide the best possible health with the least disparities and respond equally well to everyone.

We see healthcare shifting from a procedure reimbursement, where in this country doctors are reimbursed for how many procedures they conduct, to a world where people will be reimbursed for the outcomes - did the patient actually get better, and what was the total cost of the cycle of care.

I mean, I really loved the mix of personal health and, kind of, community health and justice, and I really saw how they were inseparable.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

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

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

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

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U.S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

I think public health is kind of in a very sad state of affairs here in this country.

I've always been interested in public health approaches because it seems to me we have this yearning for silver bullets, and that is not in fact how change comes about. Change comes through silver buckshot - a lot of little things that achieve results. That's a classic public health approach.

I became really interested in the community health care movement and community health centers, which Boston was sort of a leading center for.

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

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.