"The burden of disease falls on the poor." — Gro Harlem Brundtland

"The burden of disease falls on the poor."

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

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49 Quotes by Gro Harlem Brundtland

Gro Harlem Brundtland has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in…
Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year,…
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head…
With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.
In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control…
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities,…
A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.
The climate challenge illustrates how we have to change. The developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and…
The diagnosis is clear, the science in unequivocal-it's completely immoral, even, to question now, on the basis of what we…

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Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare… — Michele Bachmann
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest… — Lord Acton
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me. — David Bailey
What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent… — Bob Beauprez
The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel… — Ezra Taft Benson
Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father,… — Ezra Taft Benson
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet… — John Berger
The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight… — Vinoba Bhave
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things… — Theodor Adorno
'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We… — Joe Biden

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