"You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless……" — Gro Harlem Brundtland
"You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow."
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49 Quotes by Gro Harlem Brundtland
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- 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.
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- 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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