Gro Harlem Brundtland Quotes
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children
Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.
A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries
Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.
Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.
I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty.
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.
This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.
I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.
Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.
