You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
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.
Women power is a formidable force.
Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.
A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.
Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men.
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.
To change societies you need to organize with others who share your views.
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.
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.
Health is the core of human development.