“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.”
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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“You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.”
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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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.”
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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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.”
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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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.”
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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“An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.”
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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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.”
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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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.”
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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“Health is the core of human development.”
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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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.”
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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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.”
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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