List of Gro Harlem Brundtland Quotes

I Have Seen This Happen In Recent Years With Regard To Pharmaceuticals And Vaccines, Where, Working Together, We Are Improving Access To Medicines And Vaccines For Infectious Diseases In The Poorest Countries.

Such Lifestyle Factors Such As Cigarette Smoking, Excessive Alcohol Consumption, Little Physical Activity And Low Dietary Calcium Intake Are Risk Factors For Osteoporosis As Well As For Many Other Non-communicable Diseases.

I Have Repeatedly Stressed That We Have The Knowledge To Reduce Hunger And Poverty.

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 Prevention Of Several Diseases, Rather Than Focusing On Individual Ones.

That The Aids Pandemic Is Threatening Sustainable Development In Africa Only Reinforces The Reality That Health Is At The Center Of Sustainable Development.

There Is A Very Close Connection Between Being A Doctor And A Politician. The Doctor Tries To Prevent Illness, Then Tries To Treat It If It Comes. It's Exactly The Same As What You Try To Do As A Politician, But With Regard To Society.

Let Me First Say That I Don't Think The Millennium Target Of Cutting Global Poverty In Half Is An Impossible Or Abstract Target. I Think It Is A Real And Achievable Goal.

Music Is Something I Must Do, Business Is Something I Need To Do, And Africa Is Something I Have To Do. That's The Way It Breaks Down In My Life.

This Is A Historic Moment In Global Public Health, Demonstrating The International Will To Tackle A Threat To Health Head On.

Morality Becomes Hypocrisy If It Means Accepting Mothers' Suffering Or Dying In Connection With Unwanted Pregnancies And Illegal Abortions And Unwanted Children

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.

During My Nearly Five Years As Director-general Of Who, High-level Policymakers Have Increasingly Recognized That Health Is Central To Sustainable Development.