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Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for su...

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An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environm...

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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical act...

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That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality ...

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Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killi...

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The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are ful...

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During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly re...

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You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues ...

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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legisla...

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We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to ad...

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Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Born: 1939-04-20

Died: N/A

Gro Harlem Brundtland (born 20 April 1939) is a Norwegian politician, former leader of the Norwegian Labor Party, former prime minister of Norway and former director-general of the World Health Organization (1998-2003). She also served as Director of the United Nations' Brundtland Committee encouraging sustainable development, and led the unsuccessful "Yes" campaign in the 1994 Norwegian European Union membership referendum.More