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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• Gro Harlem Brundtland:

  Health is the core of human development.

• Gro Harlem Brundtland:

  I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working

• Gro Harlem Brundtland:

  In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy fo

• Gro Harlem Brundtland:

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

• Gro Harlem Brundtland:

  Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

• Gro Harlem Brundtland:

  Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an i

• Gro Harlem Brundtland:

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

• Gro Harlem Brundtland:

  Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology.

• Gro Harlem Brundtland:

  Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Healt

• Gro Harlem Brundtland:

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