Gro Harlem Brundtland Quotes

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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.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Future, Needs, Generations

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• 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.

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  Civilization, Choices, Way

  "How will everything change under climate change?" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2015.

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• Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Fitness, Benefits, Investing

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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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  Family, Country, Long

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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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  Country, Real, Health

  Gro Harlem Brundtland's speech to the International Conference on Public Health in Bergen, Oslo, www.who.int. June 16, 2003.

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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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  Health, Hunger And Poverty, Ecosystems

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• Women power is a formidable force.

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  Memorable, Women Power, Force

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• To change societies you need to organize with others who share your views.

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  Views, Needs, Share

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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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  Country, Opportunity, Support

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

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Cigarette Smoke, Smoking, Used

  "Penalising Smokers to Help Us All Breathe Easy" by Rita Panahi, www.heraldsun.com.au. June 30, 2013.

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• Health is the core of human development

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  Development, Human Development, Humans

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• It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.

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  Leadership, Years, Perspective

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

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  Intellectual, Resources, Private Sector

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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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  Teamwork, Future, People

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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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  Mean, World Government, Rights

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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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  Health, Issues, Environmental

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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.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Health, Care, Broads

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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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  Mother, Men, Class

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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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  Country, Future, Vision

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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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  Men, Osteoporosis, Males

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• During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

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  Years, Directors, Development

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• The diagnosis is clear, the science in unequivocal-it's completely immoral, even, to question now, on the basis of what we know, the reports that are out, to question the issue and to question whether we need to move forward at a much stronger pace as humankind to address the issues.

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  Moving, Science, Issues

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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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  Children, Years, People

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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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  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  Gro Harlem Brundtland (1993). “Population, Environment and 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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  Organization, Risk, Development

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