"We have an opportunity to launch a massive effort against infectious diseases."

“Nurses, as the key health professionals, are in a unique position to act as powerful advocates for a healthy planet. As nurses and midwives already constitute up to 80% of the qualified health workforce in most national health systems, they represent a potentially powerful force for bringing about the necessary changes to meet the needs of Health for All in the 21st century. Indeed, their contribution to health services covers the whole spectrum of health care It is clear that nurses are the backbone of most health care teams.”

“Tobacco is a communicated disease – communicated through marketing.”

“The global toll of mental illness and neurological disorders is staggering.”

“the century of extremes, in which human vices reached unfathomable depths. a century of great progress unprecedented economic growth. overcrowding and a disease pattern linked to poverty and an unhealthy environment.”