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. |
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. |
Failure to effectively use every intervention strategy available to help our young people would be a tragic mistake, |
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. |
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. |
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. |
I think we're ready to move from an environment of blame and stigmatization when it comes to mental health problems, |
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. |
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. |
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. |
It's hard to believe that more people have died from suicide than homicide, but it's a sad fact, |
Many experts think hopelessness is common to suicide and homicide and violence in general, |
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. |
Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak. |
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. |