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 — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
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. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
To change societies you need to organize with others who share your views. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
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 new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health… — 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 Image
With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
