David Satcher
David Satcher
David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D. FAAFP, FACPM, FACPis an American physician, and public health administrator. He was a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the 10th Assistant Secretary for Health, and the 16th Surgeon General of the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth2 March 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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Many people believe that dealing with overweight and obesity is a personal responsibility. To some degree they are right, but it is also a community responsibility. When there are no safe, accessible places for children to play or adults to walk, jog, or ride a bike, that is a community responsibility.
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The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.
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We must critically analyze risk factors and causes of the problem, ... We must introduce and evaluate strategies of intervening for preventing suicide, and then we must implement the programs widely and continue to evaluate them.
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We have to be more strategic in the distribution,
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We made progress, ... But clearly we have much to do and we have much further to go.
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We are urging, through the month of November, that health care providers focus first on immunizing the elderly and the chronically ill and women who will be in their second or third trimester of pregnancy during the flu season ? those groups who are most at risk,
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We're talking about creating an environment of support and caring where a person not only feels comfortable coming forward but would be encouraged to come forward,
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Fifteen years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, prevention remains the most effective way of addressing this disease, ... Business and labor have a crucial role to play in HIV/AIDS prevention, and I applaud these organizations for taking a leadership role.
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Failure to effectively use every intervention strategy available to help our young people would be a tragic mistake,
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The good news is that we can prevent many deaths from colorectal cancer through screening, ... If you've celebrated your 50th birthday and have never been screened for colorectal cancer, start now.
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One of the major concerns we have about the AIDS epidemic is that increasingly it is affecting communities that tend to be left out of the health care and public health system, ... We know that in order to be successful we have to find a new way to reach these communities.
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The window of opportunity for effective interventions opens early and rarely, if ever, closes,
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The problem now is that often, mental health problems are not recognized until late, ... We want to make sure that we bring the best treatment to bear in this system. We want to make sure that we continue to research.
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By taking us beyond the issues of race and income, these findings tell us that if we want to help our children avoid dangerous behaviors, we need to find out what's going on in their lives.