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  • Md
  • born 1939
  • 62 quotes

Gro Harlem Brundtland, a md (born 1939), is quoted 62 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Development, Needs, Osteoporosis and Health.

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Women power is a formidable force.

Health is the core of human development

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

Health is the core of human development.

We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks.

Cancers of all types among women are increasing

Cancers of all types among women are increasing.

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

To change societies you need to organize with others who share your views.

I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty.

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology.

A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.

Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

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.

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.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

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.

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.

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.

I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.

In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.

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