Health Prevention Quotes

#1. Medication, surgery, and medical tests are all focused on disease, not on health. Prevention is the act of moving away from the disease. Proactivity in health is seeking a high level of wellness and acting in a way that will create that reality in your life.

Rand Olson

#2. Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities.

Rob Wittman

#3. America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Tom Harkin

#4. As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.

Rob Wittman

#5. On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.

Barbara Mikulski

#6. Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.

David Perlmutter

#7. With a comprehensive action plan, a coalition can engage peole, ideas, and resources across sectorsto create a synergy of health and prevention efforts that will have a lasting effect on community health.

Frances Dunn Butterfoss

#8. You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?

George Gordon Byron

#9. We are the custodians of our bodies. We must take action to employ healthy lifestyle habits to prevent, reduce, and/or manage disease and illness.

Bridgette L. Collins

#10. To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.

T.K. Naliaka

#11. Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

Bjorn Lomborg

#12. A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

#13. According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved.

Jonas Gahr Store

#14. Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

Julie Bishop

#15. We can have a large impact on the prevention and amelioration of abuse, drug problems, violence, mental health problems, and dysfunction in families.

Steven C. Hayes

#16. Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.

Sharon Weil

#17. In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.

Charles W. Pickering

#18. The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

Leroy Hood

#19. Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#20. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and infectious diseases.

Anthony Fauci

#21. The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.

William Styron

#22. But you cannot change your nature. If you are a lonely creature, this cannot be undone. Something will always crop up to remind you.

Adrienne Celt

#23. Malaria-hosting mosquitoes will not wait politely during their most active evening feeding hours for people to go to bed under mosquito nets.

T.K. Naliaka

#24. 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.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#25. If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#26. Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.

Lucy Powell

#27. Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician.

Henry E. Sigerist

#28. Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

Malcolm Fraser

#29. When we assess someone's life or health on the basis of surface-level observations or passing comments, it presents us with a very flawed version of reality.

Evita Ochel

#30. A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.

Joan D. Chittister

#31. Tis Fate that flings the dice,
And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
And of peasants kings.

John Dryden

#32. Admit it, "Lord I'm Not Done Yet"
Live it, "Lord I'm Not Done Yet"
Shout it, "Lord I'm Not Done Yet

Phyllis Lomax Singh

#33. To be alive, to able to see, to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

Arthur Rubinstein

#34. If you, free as you are of every weight
had stayed below, then that would be as strange
as living flame on earth remaining still.
And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.

Dante Alighieri

#35. The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#36. One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

Anne Wojcicki

#37. Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.

T.K. Naliaka