Gro Harlem Brundtland Quotes

• 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.

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• Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

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• You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

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• Women’s health is one of WHO’s highest priorities.

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• With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

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• When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.

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• We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks.

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• We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.

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• Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.

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• This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat… The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.

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• This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

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• This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.

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• The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis.

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• 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 are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.

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• 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 trading practices in food.

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• The burden of disease falls on the poor.

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• That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

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• 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.

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• Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women’s physiology.

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• Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers’ suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

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Gro Harlem Brundtland (33)

Birth:	20th April, 1939
Nationality:	Norwegian
Profession:	Physician, Politician

About

Gro Harlem Brundtland was born in Oslo, Norway. She is a Norwegian politician and physician who served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway and as Director-General of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003. She was Norwegian Minister for Environmental Affairs from 1974 to 1979. From 1981 to 1992 she was leader of the Labour Party. She served as a UN Special Envoy on Climate Change from 2007. She is also deputy chair of The Elders. She graduated with a medical degree, a cand.med. from the University of Oslo in 1963. She took her master's degree as a Master of Public Health at Harvard University in 1965. From 1966 to 1969, she worked as a physician at the Directorate of Health, and from 1969 she worked as a doctor in Oslo's public school health service. She received Indira Gandhi Prize in 1988, Charlemagne Prize in 1994, and Tang Prize in 2014.

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