Quotes About Disease Prevention

#1. As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.

David Perlmutter

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Polyunsaturated fats include safflower oil, corn oil, soybean oil and canola oil, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Anonymous

#5. Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#6. China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.

Wen Jiabao

#7. 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

#8. Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.

Molly Caldwell Crosby

#9. Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Michael J. Fox

#10. 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

#11. One of the more exciting benefits of good nutrition is the prevention of diseases that are thought to be due to genetic predisposition. We now know that we can largely avoid these "genetic" diseases even though we may harbor the gene (or genes) that is (are) responsible for the disease.

T. Colin Campbell

#12. 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

#13. We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

Olympia Snowe

#14. 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.

Harvey V. Fineberg

#15. Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.

Andrew Weil

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

Sharon Weil

#17. Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.

Alice Dreger

#18. 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

#19. The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by ... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

Albert Sabin

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

T.K. Naliaka

#21. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2010. Establishing a Holistic Framework to Reduce Inequities in HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and Tuberculosis in the United States.

Leiyu Shi

#22. He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

Thomas Fuller

#23. College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as transmission from crowded living conditions and social behaviors common among college students.

Erik Paulsen

#24. National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.

Lois Capps

#25. Indeed, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calculated that 65 million people in the United States now have a sexually transmitted virus, and they will suffer from it for the rest of their lives.

James C. Dobson

#26. Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.

Rudolf Leuckart

#27. For the mass prevention of disease, mass education is a key weapon.

T.R. Reid

#28. The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his (sic)patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease

Thomas Jefferson

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

Henry E. Sigerist

#30. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is common, laboratory evidence of infection.

Michael Specter

#31. 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