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Hospitals are about healing.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Healing
Hospitals
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Hardship
Poverty
Leads
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Fighting
Investment
Poverty
Investments
Programs
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Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Nuclear
Terrorism
Probable
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Bells
Gone
Shelter
Fallout
Favor
Shelters
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Disaster
Hook
President Obama
Sandy
Deeply
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Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Critical
Good Health
Guarantees
Outcomes
Health Good Good Health
Factor
Guarantee
Insurance
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There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Citizens
Details
Planning
Preparedness
Describe
Several
Websites
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Academic
Disruption
Catch
Young Child
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Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Medicaid
Program
Safety
Safety Net
Health Insurance
Insurance
Programs
Net
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Disaster
Principal
Recovery
Driver
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There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
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Cities
Estimation
Events
Nuclear
Plans
Sufficient
Terrorist
Event
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Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Developing
Periods
Recovery
Scale
Developing World
Disasters
Occurred
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Children
Harder
Reality
Recruit
Hospital
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Bombs
Book
Information
Nuclear
Nuclear Bomb
Assemble
Bomb
Detailed
Weapon
Parts
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Disaster
Established
Cooperate
Near
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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 / Professor
Children
Cities
Normalcy
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Disasters
Psychologically
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Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Cargo
Seven
Ships
United States
Years
Ship
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Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Children
Consistently
Factors
Fragility
Levels
Due
Disadvantage
Grown
Highly
Immigrant
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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 / Professor
Daily Work
Fireman
Officers
People
Police
Secure
Visible
Daily
Firemen
Police Officers
Presence
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Americans do not have a good track record when it comes to preparing for disasters, unless they see a clear possibility of personally being in harms way.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Possibility
Preparing
Track
Track Record
Good Way See
Disasters
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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 / Professor
Health
Society
Care
Decades
Failing
Health Care
Heavy
Pandemics
Pay
Rational
Severe
Works
Create
Pandemic
Price
System
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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 / Professor
Autism
Children
Development
Greater
Vaccines
Speculative
Vaccine
Your Child
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When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Children
Fighting
Hungry
School
Sleepy
Symptoms
Illnesses
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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 / Professor
Charity
Community
Country
Extraordinary
Faith Based
Organization
Poverty
Brunt
Initiatives
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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 / Professor
Access
Best Practices
Billions
Children
Dollars
Health Care
Health Care System
Practice
Risk
Treatment
Billions Of Dollars
Ensure
Save
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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.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Kids
Children
Doctors
Filled
Function
Hospitals
Passive
Sick
Wait
Referred
The Problem With
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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 / Professor
Kids
Children
Disaster
Fewer
Funding
Lip Service
Matched
Needs
Planning
Valuable
Actual
Mantra
Resource
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Administration
Commerce
Donors
Pals
Political History
History Political People
Ambassador
Deputy
Normally
Positions
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There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
War
Locked
Mind
Mind Set
Nuclear
Nuclear War
Overwhelming
Preparedness
Transition
Futile
Scenario
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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.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Flu
Point Of View
Population
Fellow
Few People
Healthy People
Neighbors
Travelers
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The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Best Way
Chapters
Cities
Community
Emergencies
Management
Office
Cross
Local
Offices
Region
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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Communication
Covering
Drills
Exercise
Lines
Officials
Response
Scenarios
School
Variety
Armed
Communications
Emergency
Exercises
Local
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Many 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 / Professor
Home
Children
Stress
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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 / Professor
Medical
Comprehensive
Deprivation
Developing
Long Term
Low Income
Mental Health
Persistent
Stress
Addressing
Chronic
Clinical
Mental
Nutritional
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