HEALTH
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"The
Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of
greed - by taking the most expensive thing in
America, health care, and giving it away for
free."
-- Patch
Adams
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Because
we are interested in promoting wellness, we
will integrate medicine with performing arts,
arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature,
and social service.
--
Patch Adams
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[The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing
arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine
and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. We want
to make the hospital a place a person can't wait to
come to, whether they are working there or being there
as a patient. Because we are interested in promoting
wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing
arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature,
and social service. Those are some skeletal parts.
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Patch Adams
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Good
health is one of the most important ingredients
for a happy and productive life. And yet, many
people do not have access to health care and live
in conditions that spread disease.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
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"In
health there is freedom. Health is the first of all
liberties."
-- Henri-Frederic Amiel
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"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."
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"Children
are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.
And yet, this year alone, more than half a million women
will die in pregnancy or childbirth. Almost 11 million
children will die before they reach the age of five
-- 4 million of them in the first month of life. Almost
all these deaths will happen in developing countries.
A large number of them could be prevented.
When adopting the Millennium Development Goals five
years ago, the world's governments promised, by the
year 2015, to reduce maternal deaths by three quarters
and cut child mortality by two thirds. While there has
been progress in some regions, there has been stagnation
in others. In some countries, progress has even been
reversed.
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."
~ Kofi Annan
He
who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
~Arabic Proverb
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Everything
is now for sale. Even those areas of life that
we once considered sacred like health and education,
food and water and air and seeds and genes and
a heritage. It is all now for sale.
-- Maude Barlow
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors
if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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A
pen rather than a lance has been my weapon of
offence and defence; with its point I should prick
the civic conscience and bring into a neglected
field men and women who should act as champions
for those afflicted thousands least able to fight
for themselves.
-- Clifford Beers
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"Creating
a world that is truly fit for children does
not imply simply the absence of war. It means
having the confidence that our children would
not die of measles or malaria. It means having
access to clean water and proper sanitation.
It means having primary schools nearby that
educate children, free of charge. It means changing
the world with children, ensuring their right
to participate, and that their views are heard
and considered. It means building a world fit
for children, where every child can grow to
adulthood in health, peace and dignity."
-- Carol Bellamy
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A
diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower
in beef and other meat is not just healthier for
ourselves but also contributes to changing the
world system that feeds some people and leaves
others hungry.
-- Dr. Walden Bello
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I
do care a great deal about the environment but
my real work and my greatest challenge is trying
to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public
health and safety.
-- Erin
Brockovich
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am an advocate for awareness, the truth, and a
person's right to know. I believe that in the
absence of the truth, all of us stand helpless
to defend ourselves, our families and our health,
which is the greatest gift we have.
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Erin
Brockovich
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There
can be no real growth without healthy populations.
No sustainable development without tackling disease
and malnutrition. No international security without
assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope
for the spread of freedom, democracy and human
dignity unless we treat health as a basic human
right.
-- Gro
Brundtland
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cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless
you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem
in which their economies can grow.
-- Gro
Brundtland
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We
are working towards a shared vision of the future for
health among all the world's people. A vision future
in which we develop new ways of working together at
global and national level. A vision which has poor people
and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which
focuses action on the causes and consequences of the
health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.
-- Gro
Brundtland
You
cannot achieve environmental security and human development
without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
-- Gro
Brundtland
Never
have so many had such broad and advanced access to health
care. But never have so many been denied access to health.
-- Gro
Brundtland
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Peace
is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting.
Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only
suffering in both peace and war, must be translated
into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education,
as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily
better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering
and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world,
the underprivileged and the undernourished, must
begin to realize without delay the promise of a
new day and a new life.
-- Ralph J. Bunche
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"There
is simply no good reason why in the 21st century, thousands
of women and children in developing countries should
be dying during childbirth and the early years of life.
~ Honourable Aileen Carroll, Minister of International
Cooperation, CIDA
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The
awareness that health is dependent upon habits
that we control makes us the first generation
in history that to a large extent determines its
own destiny.
~ Jimmy Carter
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Ill
health is an important factor that forces the
poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit
of money, one episode of illness can wipe them
out.
-- Zafrullah
Chowdhury
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"Demand
that your government pays more attention. It's
immoral that people in Africa die like flies of
diseases that no one dies of in the United States.
And the more disease there is, the more political
unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs,
which the U.S. will have to pay to fix."
~ Bill Clinton
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"I
have never believed we had to choose between either
a clean and safe environment or a growing economy.
Protecting the health and safety of all Americans
doesn’t have to come at the expense of our economy’s
bottom line. And creating thriving companies and
new jobs doesn’t have to come at the expense of
the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food
we eat, or the natural landscape in which we live.
We can, and indeed must, have both."
~ Bill Clinton
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Drugs
are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always
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"The
risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the
environmental justice impacts and the long-term
health effects of both these projects are untenable...We
cannot afford to be silent on these important
issues."
~ James Cromwell
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America's
health care system is neither healthy, caring,
nor a system.
-- Walter Cronkite
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"UNICEF
is helping mothers realize their dreams for the
future — a future in which the basic needs for
a child’s survival: food, clean water and simple
health care — are guaranteed."
-- Jane Curtin
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"...we
all have an obligation as citizens of this earth
to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better
place for our children and future generations.”
~ Blythe Danner
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The
power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into
folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love
moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout
history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized
as a valuable element in healing.
~ Larry Dossey
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Social
entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for
example, a better way of helping young people
grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They
simply will not stop because they cannot be happy
until their vision becomes the new pattern.
-- Bill Drayton
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