Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families,… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
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… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share
You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share
Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share
The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted.… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share
To change societies you need to organize with others who share your views. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share
We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share
Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share
With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share
This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share
In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share
