{"quotes":[{"text":"If people's night fears of sorcery - which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets - fail to impress the outsider, the brute everyday reality remains; in a number of rural African villages it is still much too common for very real hyenas to snatch people, especially children, out of their own homes as they lie sleeping at night, because of the lack of a good front door.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["africa","behavioral-change","behaviors","constraints","hyenas","malaria","malaria-eradication","mosquito-net","predation","public-health","security","villages"],"id":13251,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"I am sorry for you tonight, Mr. President. You are facing one of the greatest decisions of your career. Upon what you decide depends on whether or not you are going to get your canal. If you fall back upon the old methods of sanitation you will fail, just as the French failed. If you back up Dr. Gorgas and his ideas, and you let him make his campaign against mosquitoes, then you get your canal. I can only give you my advice; you must decide for yourself. There is only one way of controlling yellow fever and malaria, and that is the eradication of the mosquitoes. But it is your canal; you must do the choosing and you must choose tonight whether you are going to build that canal.","author":"Thomas W. Martin","tags":["administration-block","impediments","leadership","malaria-eradication","panama-canal","public-health","science","yellow-fever"],"id":21746,"author_id":"Thomas+W.+Martin"},{"text":"Malaria prevention and eradication should be inspired by General George Patton’s advice: “A good plan executed violently today is better than a perfect plan in a week.” In this war of attrition, millions of people will be lost while waiting on researchers to finally emerge triumphant from their labs with the perfect malaria cure; yet meanwhile, there are plenty of time-proven, practical actions that individuals, families and communities can do today with what is already in hand that can decisively defeat malaria transmission if applied with vigor and disciplined consistency.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["discipline","george-patton","individual-responsibility","malaria","public-health"],"id":30456,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"Fortunately for the cause of science and of humanity, we had as Governor-General of Cuba at that time General Leonard Wood, of the United States Army. General Wood had been educated as a physician, and had a very proper idea of the great advantages which would accrue to the world if we could establish the fact that yellow fever was conveyed by the mosquito, and his medical training made him a very competent judge as to the steps necessary to establish such fact. General Wood during the whole course of the investigations took the greatest interest in the experiments, and assisted the Board in every way he could.","author":"William Crawford Gorgas","tags":["cooperation","disease-control","general-leonard-wood","heroes","leadership","leonard-wood","malaria-eradication","medical-discoveries","medical-history","mosquitoes","public-health","quality-of-life","supporting-others","teamwork","u-s-army","vector-control","vision","yellow-fever","yellow-fever-eradication"],"id":37843,"author_id":"William+Crawford+Gorgas"},{"text":"Adult obesity and overweight statistics have increased by about 50 percent since the Dietary Goals were announced. [by the federal government, in 1977] That bears repeating: a 50 percent increase in obesity/overweight correlated with a 10 percent decrease in fat content in the diet.","author":"Larry McCleary","tags":["diet","fat","federal-government","health","nutrition","public-health"],"id":41349,"author_id":"Larry+McCleary"},{"text":"With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely if ever] predictive of consequent behavior’ or outcomes. Hence, we feel confident in asserting at outset, that prohibition based approaches in drug policy lack a sound basis in empirical research (despite sounding logical, I.E. Remove drugs or the means of their production and less drugs will be available to users, thus minimising or eliminating harm), and are not animated by well-defined goals, goals that are not only consistent with the ethical and humanitarian aims of public health policy in general, but also with the fundamental principles of democracy) such as empowering or enabling those best placed to act, but by beliefs, assumptions, hypotheses and expectations.","author":"Daniel Waterman","tags":["belief","democracy","drug-policy","drugs","ethics","explanatory-model","harm","humanitarian","policy","predictive","prohibition","public-health"],"id":51073,"author_id":"Daniel+Waterman"},{"text":"Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["africa","disease-prevention","malaria","malaria-eradication","public-health","vector-control"],"id":53588,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["2015","africa","disease-control","ebola","epidemics","irony","lessons-learned","medical-research","medical-treatment","public-health","success"],"id":84777,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["aedes-aegypti","anopheles-gambiae","common-sense","contagious-diseases","containment","disease-control","ebola","ebola-spread","effectiveness","eradication","health","malaria-spread","public-health","travel","yellow-fever","yellow-fever-spread","zika-spread"],"id":118864,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"It’s not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["africa","anopheles-gambiae","disease-control","malaria","malaria-eradication","public-health"],"id":133126,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}