#ed

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#cure #find #health #needs #now

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people. ↗

— Avery Brundage

#creating #education #end #games #itself

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

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#action #hunger #important #lever #poverty

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

#development #during #five #health #high-level

The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#common #control #could #efforts #established

In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#focusing #functions #global #major #management

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#becomes #children #connection #dying #hypocrisy

Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#alone #causes #europe #japan #million

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghanistan #been #benefited #better #bring

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#conventional #exhibits #generally #incongruous #more