Best quotes by Julio Frenk
Julio Frenk
Mexican physician and former government official
Julio José Frenk Mora (born December 20, 1953) is a Mexican physician and former government official who has been the president of the University of Miami since 2015. He is the University of Miami's first Hispanic and native Spanish-speaking president. Frenk formerly was Secretary of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006 and as dean of the faculty and T & G Angelopoulos professor of public health and international development at the Harvard School of Public Health, from 2009 to 2015, where he was the university's first Hispanic and native Spanish-speaking dean.
All quotes by Julio Frenk:
Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.
Nowadays, a minister of health cannot consider his or her job done simply by looking at the health care system. It's not enough to have a health policy, you need healthy policies elsewhere.
Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena.
If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem.