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Gro Harlem Brundtland [1939-0] Norwegian

Rank: 101
Politician, Norwegian Politician

Gro Harlem Brundtland is a Norwegian politician, who served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway and as Director-General of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003.

Health, Diet, Environmental, Food, Alone, Money

Quote	Tags	Rank
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.	Environmental, Health	101
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.	Diet	102
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.		103
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.	Diet	104
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.	Food	105
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.	Alone	106
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.	Food	107
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.	Health	108
Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.	Health	109
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.	Money	110
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.		111
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.	Health	112
The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis.		113
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.		114
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.	Health	115
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.	Health	116
Health is the core of human development.		117
Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men.		118
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.		119
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.		120
Cancers of all types among women are increasing.		121
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.	Environmental	122
Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology.		123
Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.		124
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.	Diet	125
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.		126
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.		201
We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks.		202
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.		203
This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.		204
With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.		205
Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities.		206
The burden of disease falls on the poor.		207

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