In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

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Investing in health will produce enormous benefits. by Gro Harlem Brundtland

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

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More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries

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Women power is a formidable force. by Gro Harlem Brundtland

Women power is a formidable force.

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A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as direc... by Gro Harlem Brundtland

A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

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There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.

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Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men

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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 conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.

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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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Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.

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If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law

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The climate challenge illustrates how we have to change. The developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and use clean energy. Because if the current situation continues, then the world will not be able to handle this burden.

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The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.

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Health is the core of human development by Gro Harlem Brundtland

Health is the core of human development

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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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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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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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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.

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A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

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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.

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