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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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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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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Many experts think hopelessness is common to suicide and homicide and violence in general,
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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.
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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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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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The current trend in the '90's has not been good, ... We have a lot of work to do.
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The underlying premise of Healthy People 2010 is that the health of the individual is inseparable from the health of the larger community,
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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.