Irwin Redlener Quotes

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Irwin Redlener

Profession : Activist

Birth : August 12, 1944

Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.

Irwin Redlener

If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.

Irwin Redlener

No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

Irwin Redlener

The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.

Irwin Redlener

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

Irwin Redlener

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

Irwin Redlener

Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.

Irwin Redlener

Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.

Irwin Redlener

There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

Irwin Redlener

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Irwin Redlener

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

Irwin Redlener

The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

Irwin Redlener

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

Irwin Redlener

There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.

Irwin Redlener

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

Irwin Redlener

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

Irwin Redlener

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

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Hospitals are about healing.

Irwin Redlener

Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.

Irwin Redlener

From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

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