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Women power is a formidable force.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Gro Harlem Brundtland
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
Diplomat
Physician
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Brooklyn
New York
Formidable
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Women

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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.
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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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I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.
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To change societies you need to organize with others who share your views.
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I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.
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