Best quotes by Vivek Murthy on Health

Checkout quotes by Vivek Murthy on Health

  • As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don't recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It's important for many reasons, one of which is that it has a profound impact on health.
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  • Climate change poses a serious, immediate and global threat to health.
    - Vivek Murthy
  • Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.
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  • The amount of sleep you get has an impact, not just on how you feel the next day, but it has an impact on your long-term health as well.
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  • As all of us know, health is deeply intertwined with culture: what we eat, how active we are, how much we sleep. These are rooted in cultural norms.
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  • Science tells us more and more now that there is a strong connection between emotional well-being and health outcomes, and that you can proactively cultivate emotional well-being through relatively simple practices like sleep, social connection and meditation.
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  • A few colleagues and I began Doctors for America with a simple belief that physicians should play a leadership role in designing and running our nation's health care system.
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  • We know that chronic loneliness has consequences. It certainly depresses our mood. And in terms of our health, people who struggle with loneliness also have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, dementia, depression, and anxiety. Loneliness is also associated with a shorter lifespan.
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  • Our health care workers are the heroes of the Covid-19 response.
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  • It's easy to say that health is all about personal responsibility and we should all make good decisions for ourselves, but the reality is far more complicated. We know that in the case of motor vehicle accidents, how other people drive makes a difference in how safe you are.
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  • A prevention-based society is one in which every institution, whether they're a hospital or a clinic, or a school, an employer or a faith-based organization, recognizes and embraces the role that it can play in improving health.
    - Vivek Murthy