Irwin Redlener
Irwin Redlener
Irwin Redlener is a pediatrician and public health activist who specializes in health care for underserved children, health care reform, and disaster planning, response, and recovery. He is the author of Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 August 1944
CountryUnited States of America
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Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.
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expressing anger and other most unusual behaviors on what appeared to be a coached, homemade recording.
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We heard this horrific story today of a woman whose husband died and she sat in the tent for hours because there's nothing you can do with the body ... and just went to tell the coroner, 'I marked it and you can find the body here or there,'
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We are profoundly unprepared to manage a pandemic flu threat right now,
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We started from zero five weeks ago to all this hot, hot spotlight on pandemic flu, but we're not going to be ready.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.
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You have sewage contaminating the water supply. You not only have the danger of the sewage itself, the need for water is one of the primary needs that must be fulfilled and people will drink dirty water, if they get thirsty enough.
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You have sewage contaminating the water supply, ... You not only have the danger of the sewage itself, the need for water is one of the primary needs that must be fulfilled and people will drink dirty water, if they get thirsty enough.
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Within the next six months, we'll have infected birds in the U.S..
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We're only missing one more piece before it becomes a pandemic and that is the ability to be transmitted from person to person as opposed to simply from birds or fowl to humans,
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We're playing Russian roulette with public health here.