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Development Quotes by Gro Harlem Brundtland
- You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
- A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.
- That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
- There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And…
- Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
- Health is the core of human development
- 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
- During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.
- 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…
- 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…
- This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.
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