Burden Quote by Gro Harlem Brundtland Download Open image “The burden of disease falls on the poor.” — Gro Harlem Brundtland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burden Disease Fall Poor
Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of… — Zafrullah Chowdhury Copy Share Image
we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
“The poorest in America are the sickets. Poor people can't afford preventive care or insurance. The poor don't see doctors. They show up at… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance to use their own very limited resources in ways that help their people. And also there's a hopelessness associated with deadly diseases, that if that can be alleviated, people can build their own economies in their own countries… — Laura Bush Copy Share
The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they are extremely… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“Every year some 150 million people face severe financial hardship and 100 million are pushed below the poverty line because they fall ill, use… — The Lancet Copy Share Image
we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in… — Alice Tisdale Hobart 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
“If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me. — Seungri Copy Share Image
Trump's enduring appeal is a resource to be harnessed by the Republican Party, not a burden to be jettisoned. — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has ‘a forgiving disposition’ (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change.… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share
It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge. — David Blaine Copy Share Image
Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
