Quotes by Ruth Simmons

Ruth Simmons

A focus on people’s health and well-being must be the core of family planning research and policy. This may seem self-evident, but the realities of program implementation in third world countries has often shown that the health and well-being of individuals is not a priority.

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Reality

Self

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

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Intellectual

Perspective

Bureaucratic systems are not set up to be what we refer to as human service organizations. They were established to collect revenue and maintain law and order and they used a law and order approach in providing family planning services.

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Order

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Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren’t afraid to fail, you probably wouldn’t be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

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Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.

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Littles

High level policy makers and program managers do not normally listen to the voices of local people, local providers and local program managers when they make decisions about contraceptive introduction or other aspects of program development in reproductive health.

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People

Voice

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

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I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

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If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

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If policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.

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Quotes by Ruth Simmons

Ruth Simmons

A focus on people’s health and well-being must be the core of family planning research and policy. This may seem self-evident, but the realities of program implementation in third world countries has often shown that the health and well-being of individuals is not a priority.

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

Bureaucratic systems are not set up to be what we refer to as human service organizations. They were established to collect revenue and maintain law and order and they used a law and order approach in providing family planning services.

Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren’t afraid to fail, you probably wouldn’t be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.

High level policy makers and program managers do not normally listen to the voices of local people, local providers and local program managers when they make decisions about contraceptive introduction or other aspects of program development in reproductive health.

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

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