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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I'm sure that many of the deaths that have occurred (after the hurricane) have resulted from people with chronic diseases either suffering from dehydration or (the) inability to access their medications, ... All of these risks of suffering from chronic diseases and dying from them were greatest for the poor and the other people who could not get out of there.
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The current trend in the '90's has not been good, ... We have a lot of work to do.
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I think we're ready to move from an environment of blame and stigmatization when it comes to mental health problems,
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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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Hepatitis A, among the various hepatitis diseases that we have, is a very mild disease, generally causing fever, malaise, nausea and jaundice. But in general, it is a very mild disease.
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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.
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The girls who are now teenagers, who are now smoking, will be victims of these smoking related diseases in the future,
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Many experts think hopelessness is common to suicide and homicide and violence in general,
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There's clearly a difference in the ease of access to guns and the use of guns in violent behavior,
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The window of opportunity for effective interventions opens early and rarely, if ever, closes,
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Everyone in need must have access to high-quality, effective and affordable mental health services, ... Too often, our mental health problems are left to play themselves out in the nation's streets, homeless centers ... and prisons.
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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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We don't have a lot of time with inhalation anthrax,