David Satcher Health Quotations

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.

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,

The problem now is that often, mental health problems are not recognized until late, ... We want to make sure that we bring the best treatment to bear in this system. We want to make sure that we continue to research.

There is no health without mental health.

The results released in today's American Journal of Public Health should lead any medical professional to realize a prescription for change needs to be written. For the American taxpayer, its time to ask for increased accountability and expect a better return on a $60 billion investment,

The underlying premise of Healthy People 2010 is that the health of the individual is inseparable from the health of the larger community,

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.

We are urging, through the month of November, that health care providers focus first on immunizing the elderly and the chronically ill and women who will be in their second or third trimester of pregnancy during the flu season ? those groups who are most at risk,