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
america community challenges
Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'
thinking people community
People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.
people healthy research
This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to adolescence can direct young people away from violence toward healthy and constructive lives.
country impact hurricanes
The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.
children believe responsibility
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.
struggle differences challenges
The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.
bodies consider deal floating health history hopeless mental people prepared ready saw scene situation sort
I think the history is such that we underestimate the mental health problems, ... As people see what they consider sort of a hopeless situation - bodies floating on the water, the scene like they saw in the Superdome - people are not ready for that. They are not prepared to deal with it.
mental-health
There is no health without mental health.
suicide country shapes
I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.
blood speak nations
Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak
years two smoking
Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.
country children believe
We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.