20 Quotes by Elizabeth Ward

We're absolutely thrilled that this project has come to fruition. The opening day was fantastic and the youngsters are now using the park well.

We are targeting the adolescent male population through the music fraternity, and also through sports, in an effort to instil positive messages through creative communication strategies.

One of the big factors that may account for this finding is access to high-quality medical care. Often communities that have high poverty rates either lack access to good quality care, or people have to travel longer distances to obtain high-quality care.

I am so happy because it is just exhausting being a single mother who is married. So I couldn't wait for him to come home, and after a couple days of sleep, he's going to have to start doing his honey-do list like changing the light bulbs that I couldn't reach, walking the dogs, helping out with the baby and all those wonderful things husbands should do.

People have still not fully gotten the message that the most important things that they can do to avoid cancer are to avoid tobacco smoking and maintain a healthy body weight and physical activity.

We need to invest in prevention because it's better for the quality of life of people if they live longer without a chronic or disabling disease, ... and it's better for us as a nation because we're not putting so many resources in treatment of chronic diseases.

While we have so much information about changes that would be necessary to decrease the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases, it's not clear how to change society and change policy to help those changes take place. It's disturbing that we have so much information now but we haven't really achieved the social will to make the kinds of changes that would need to be made to really impact tobacco smoking and the trends of increasing overweight and obesity.

The death rate overall has fallen considerably. Even though we've made progress in reducing the death rate overall, we actually have two causes of death that are continuing to rise.

The creek is kind of a dumping ground. I guess people don't feel a lot of ownership for it.